[OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Thu Feb 21 15:59:27 GMT 2008
Hi,
> I'm a bit confused. Isn't that situation, in US jurisdiction, a
> problem
> with any copyleft license that would be adopted? I can do this with
> gpl
> software, too. I can download the linux kernel, take away the license
> notices and then sell it to someone to use in a proprietary product.
No, because coypright applies to the Linux kernel, and the US law
does recognize that very well. The problem arises only with stuff
that is not copyrightable, such as factual data, onto which you try
to add restrictions.
Bye
Frederik
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