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| From: | Hyman Rosen |
| Subject: | Re: The GPL dream continues |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:45:35 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
David Kastrup wrote:
You can't retroactively change the effects of laws,
> that would be acting against bad faith ("good faith"
> seems an inappropriate term regarding reliance on
> being able to ignore licensing conditions).
Governments can do whatever they want.
For example:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_harmonising_the_term_of_copyright_protection>
The EU restored copyrights protection on works that
had already entered the public domain.
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