From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 20:37:03 CET
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:34:28PM +0100, Christian Leber nicely wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Michele Andreoli wrote:
>
> > > Not really related to the process of creating an ISO Image.
> > > But what's about this really silly stamp thing in Italia?
> > I cannot understand neither first, neither second statement.
> > Please, explain better.
>
> This document deals with the problems arising from an amendment to Italian
> copyright law (September, 2000), which in addition to going against a
> subsequent European Community recommendation (February, 2001), poses a
> potentially serious threat to the activities of independent software
> developers and makes it difficult to legally distribute free software
> in Italy.
> </quote>
>
> Hopefully it is a hoax, but i do not think so.
>
Ah, you are speaking about the new italian feature: the SIAE stamp
over the CD-ROMs distributed with magazines, etc.
Very stupid, indeed: SIAE is an entity that protect authors from copy
and piratery, but for free software that is meaningless!
In the case of the muLinux CD, I simply send it to some friends,
as gift for donations. I do not know law, but I think the real
intention in this law is to protect me, so I have no stamp to put
on the CD :-)
Michele
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