Codec Buddy misleading.

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 09:47:35 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 00:35 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > For europe I think it is. It doesn't help for the Red Hat case because
> > as a US company Red Hat is obliged to obey US law.
> 
> Red Hat is also a German company. Those people could release a German
> version that includes it. Say in a German-only repository on german
> servers (and mirrors outside of red hat's control).

Are you a lawyer? I don't think so. As I see it, if Red Hat Germany did
such a thing the U.S. based Red Hat Inc. would be equally liable before
U.S. courts as if it did it by itself.

Nils (not a lawyer as well)
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