Debian and keyboard mapping copyrights
Mar 19, 2009, 21:32 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Josselin Mouette)
"It is my opinion that, in European law, the copyright on a
keyboard mapping does not affect that of its implementation,
because, among other things, of the interoperability exception ? in
the same way a function prototype is not subject to copyright while
the function itself is. Francis Leboutte believes the opposite and
claims that drivers implementing a derivative layout are illegal. I
don? think this disagreement will resolve, since it could only
happen in a court, and we both have better things to do than suing
each other for a keyboard mapping."
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