Re: [ros-kernel] Use or not use

[Frank D. E. Jr. <fd...@ya...>]

Uh...

In a country with no copyright laws, the GPL would have no affect, as
it itself requires the material being protected to be copyrighted.  It
is a copyright license.

In addition, would location in such a country not render the foundation
useless when trying to defend developers in the U.S., or some other
country where copyright laws exist?

Because of this, placing the foundation in a country like that would
eliminate the protection offered by the GPL to the project, and anyone
could take the system and copyright it in some other country or
something, turning ROS into an essentially closed-source system there,
could they not?

--- "Robert K." <ro...@ko...> wrote:
> There are in fact countrys that have no copy right. Especially in the
> near east.
> Some arabian countrys. And I think Taiwan.
> This is also what I suggested. Locate the foundation in souch a
> country, where one
> can buy DatacenterServer for 4 US$.


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