From: Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@motion-twin.com>
To: David MENTRE <david.mentre@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: Impact of French DADVSI law on Free Software and OCaml (was: Re: [Caml-list] Slashdot)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:12:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43969976.3040805@motion-twin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc0512062354k18aa286fq@mail.gmail.com>
> 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?
>
> Personally, I'm worried.
I'm not sure if it's the good place to talk about this, but here's my
thoughts. If the law proposal was possible to apply, I would be worried.
The fact that it's simply impossible to apply it in practice make it
void (which is not "unit" :). Also, it might even be anticonstitutional
since OS programs are words , just like news articles for instance. I'm
not a lawyer but I think we shouldn't be worried about this.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 7:54 David MENTRE
2005-12-07 8:12 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2005-12-07 19:32 ` Matt Gushee
2005-12-07 8:17 ` Alessandro Baretta
2005-12-07 8:38 ` skaller
2005-12-07 9:40 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-07 13:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-12-07 14:33 ` Francis Dupont
2005-12-07 14:55 ` David MENTRE
2005-12-07 15:20 ` Francis Dupont
2005-12-07 21:35 ` Michael D. Adams
2005-12-07 13:04 ` Impact of French DADVSI law on Free Software and OCaml Xavier Leroy
2005-12-07 13:26 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
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