On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 April 2014 02:29, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mairin,
> Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of wanting legal
> to weigh in, but in general I don't think legals opinion is very relevant
> and this point. The first step here should always be us as a project
> deciding what
> user experience we want to offer our users, then once that is done go to
> legal
> and try to work with them to figure out how it can be done.
>
The reason was that Legal was the big reason the rules are in place in the
first place. They are not just in place because of software patents. They
are in place because of different national laws on copyright, what is
considered to be infringement or redistribution by even linking, trademark
use (also dependent on nation etc), competition rules, and a probably
another dozen other factors.
All of this applies to any software regardless whether it is free or
not (as I said in the other mail).
Copyright law does not differentiate between free and non free software.