From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AE8BB81 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:41:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jB79fdSC020562 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:41:39 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24844 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:41:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (einhorn.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.8]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jB79fbsB020559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:41:37 +0100 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: Received: from first.in-berlin.de (e178046003.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.46.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Debian-4) with ESMTP id jB79fURV000382 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:41:31 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 621211C6C53; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:40:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:40:53 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list Subject: Re: Impact of French DADVSI law on Free Software and OCaml (was: Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot) Message-ID: <20051207094052.GC327@first.in-berlin.de> References: <3d13dcfc0512062354k18aa286fq@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc0512062354k18aa286fq@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4396AE53.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4396AE51.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 ocaml:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 bug:01 recursive:01 wrote:01 dec:04 meant:05 images:94 xavier:06 looks:07 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:54:45AM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: [...] > In English, it means that *any* software, *any* database and *any* > sound, image, etc. should be legally registred to the French State > (/dépôt légal/) as soon as it is made available to the public. I'm not > a lawyer so I might have missed something but, if this is true, (1) it > is utterly stupid and (2) it could impact the development of Free > Software in France. Should Xavier Leroy et al. registred OCaml each > time a new release is made? Should we declare all the images on the > OCaml web site? Should the OCaml bug database be registred? [...] If it is, how you write, then that's a good day for bureaucracy. Better would be, to register each such registering-operation too. ;-) That's recursive and self-referential and infinitve, and so the load will be much higher than to be expected by the lawyers. So: it will not be possible to use laws in genreal, even if they are meant general. But it can be used for certain things (here: THIS or THAT software (or anything else), at will. So... is it good to do that? well... Looks like self-disabling of the lawyers by trying to achieve anything. ;-) This will not work in general, but can be hinderance to certain projects, if people insist on this bureaucracy. :( Ciao, Oliver