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From: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@barettadeit.com>
To: David MENTRE <david.mentre@gmail.com>
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
	jtbryant@valdosta.edu, 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 09:17:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43969AA1.2000104@barettadeit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc0512062354k18aa286fq@mail.gmail.com>

David MENTRE wrote:
> Article 21
> 
> Le deuxième alinéa de l'article 1er de la loi n° 92-546 du 20 juin
> 1992 relative au dépôt légal est remplacé par les deux alinéas
> suivants :
> 
> « Les logiciels et les bases de données sont soumis à l'obligation de
> dépôt légal dès lors qu'ils sont mis à disposition d'un public par la
> diffusion d'un support matériel quelle que soit la nature de ce
> support.
> 
> « Sont également soumis au dépôt légal les signes, signaux, écrits,
> images, sons ou messages de toute nature faisant l'objet d'une
> communication publique en ligne. »
> """
> http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/projets/pl1206.asp
> 
> 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?
> 

I am, too, by the stupidity of lawmakers. According to current valid Italian 
law, dating sometime in the '30s, all published material--websites and dynamic 
content of course--must be archived by two national libraries, for posterities 
sake. Google is nothing compared to what this law requires.

Alex


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-07  8:17 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
2005-12-07 19:32   ` Matt Gushee
2005-12-07  8:17 ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
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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