Re: Proposal for P2P disclaimer text
Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:33:10 +0100
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon March 15 2004 15:46, Andreas Pour wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > Earlier you had written: > | It's much better to just ignore legal issues (esp. when you can't be > | seriously expected to perfrom exhausting research, e.g. w.r.t. patents) > | until they come up, and deal with them, then. > > In case you have not been paying attention to current events, the RIAA is > suing a number of people for P2P file sharing. They have sued hundreds of > defendants. This isn't just some patent hypothetical - or do you mean, we > should wait until the KDE project is shut down, before reacting to legal > threats to the project? This is just in: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62665,00.html Cheers, Waldo =2D --=20 [email protected] -=3D|[ SUSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=3D- bastian@suse.= com "IBM may, in any manner it sees fit and without royalty to SCO,=20 distribute any Licensed IBM Materials contained in the SCO Products" =46rom: Joint Development Agreement between the SCO, Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/851560/0000891618-99-000561.txt =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVejWN4pvrENfboIRAlXzAJ9hhCklIAXf2x5DDEHbFGJxSGBdYACeOJ8h 0s7bSe1JXSmXYQnrKGkhBwg=3D =3DBQx5 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----