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The US and France are signatories to a good stack of copyright related treaties: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ
by mcguire 5y ago
The US and France are signatories to a good stack of copyright related treaties:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf
You'd have to dig to find the details of the agreements and what they mean for GPL'd software, but it's not as simple as "France is not part of the USA". I'd be surprised if the authors of the GPL didn't take the differences into account. They aren't fools.
- ameixaseca 5y agoNot sure if naïveté or innocence, but I think you are overestimating the GPL efforts by a lot. RMS may not be a fool but he is still American (and not a lawyer). I don't think he was focused in solving licensing/copyright issues in the rest of the world in the early 90s - and even late efforts for GPLv3 didn't change it that much.
- mcguire 5y agoEben Moglen (https://softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ https://softwarefreedom.org/about/team/) is a lawyer. The GPL has been in existence for more than 30 years and has been enforced in multiple countries that are not the US, including France.
- ameixaseca 5y agoYou are talking about GPLv3, of course. In any case, this was posted along the discussion here, and you might find it interesting: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html