From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27945 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Apr 2003 19:45:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4080 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 19:45:01 -0000 From: Tony Clark To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:44:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030424191749.A3385@nanocrew.net> <200304250657.48613.tclark@telia.com> <20030425144401.A7732@nanocrew.net> In-Reply-To: <20030425144401.A7732@nanocrew.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304252145.00427.tclark@telia.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 X-Archives-Salt: aaeabc6f-3067-4057-800e-37d36ce2c870 X-Archives-Hash: cc67fe2cfc4af2bdfa8658d2690a2eef =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 April 2003 14.44, Jon Lech Johansen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 06:57:42AM +0200, Tony Clark (tclark@telia.com)=20 wrote: > > Before making a storm in a teacup why haven't you gone to microsoft's > > site and > > > > see what you have to chick to download or licensing terms, cause if you > > did you would see it is nada, ingenting,nothing etc, at least from the > > link I first found. > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=3Den&Family= ID=3D7 > >3C47878-20D0-4C1A-96F4-177D7E0074B7 > > I haven't disputed that some codecs are legally available with no > license. > > Copyrighted works which do not include a license are still protected by > copyright law, and redistributing said works would be copyright > infringement. Which town, state, country, continent are you talking about? To the best o= f=20 my knowledge (poor), in Australia, you have to actually indicate the work i= s=20 copywrite. This is done by placing a C in a circle with the date on the=20 document/code or writing the word "copywrite", by whom and the date. While= I=20 am Australian, I currently live in Sweden and have no idea what is required= =20 by law here! Maybe it's the same, maybe not! I can buy legally codine and paracetomol, mixed, without a doctors=20 prescription in Australia, with a prescription in Sweden but in the=20 Philippines, it would be totally illegal and I could go to goal for having = it=20 in my possesson. This is really off-topic on a technical list like gentoo-dev but would=20 probabley be quite ok on a list like debian-legal. I have no interest in=20 your legal options and rather you keep them too a list where the subject=20 would be on topic or in private, at least that way you don't taint everyone= =20 with your views legally. If you requested information I trust you have don= e=20 it on a personal interest basis only and not implicated a whole lot of=20 innocent people who read Gentoo-dev. Sorry for the totally off topic post and the views expressed are my own and= =20 are of no legal value anywhere. tony =2D --=20 Contract ASIC and FPGA design. Telephone +46 702 894 667 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dvindex&search=3D0x633E2623 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPqmQPGkjRGZD9pCjAQKRrAP8CCIOkChUW1QOrY0P4f/fmUGEHGAgDZHr Wu7PHSoI5U8pEYgJEvpq1AKEEr54wmY8Jopa3yi4bQ/zmQjAIG1fJjzF7Il7C6BX Hr+zbtL3FTFc3tw2kdi9KsHADHMw1RcVcdOtiYpkr6hz6ZS3MFNXfAHDLPUUQaEx mkDokeil43c=3D =3DBV/6 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list