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    On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:36:51 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
    > Disclaimer:
    > I did never use BK and I do not plan to use it.

    Same here, but just because I'm not a developer ;-)

    [...]
    > I don't know about copyright law in other countries (and the USA have
    > both a pretty different legal system and a pretty different copyright
    > law than Germany), but in Germany the clause you mentioned is simply
    > void according to German copyright law.
    >
    > German copyright law doesn't distinguish whether you get money for
    > allowing the usage of the program or not.
    >
    > The licence is still valid but the clause is void.
    >
    > I can accept a void licence clause because this doesn't make it
    > non-void. That's not uncommon. Perhaps 95% of all software licences
    > contain clauses that are simply void.
    >
    > In case you ask:
    > No, there is no case law in Germany - we have a different legal system.
    >
    > If you like it or not - at least for people in Germany, I see no way how
    > the law allows you to enforce what you are trying to do.
    >
    > You can say it might be morally wrong to break this licence clause - but
    > this doesn't make it illegal.

    I think this is true not only in Germany, if I were Larry I would
    check if the licence is valid in EU.



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