[License-discuss] OSI definition

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Tue Jan 19 07:58:40 UTC 2021


David Woolley dixit:

> On 18/01/2021 22:08, Gil Yehuda wrote:

>>A team of engineers at any
>>company can use the code under the terms of the license, for anything they
>>please. They can make a product for profit. Only the company itself

No, the engineers acting on behalf of the company are agents of the
legal person (“juristische Person” in Germany), and as such it’s the
company that’s doing the using.

> I believe this is true for the USA and UK.

Same for Germany, and probably most of the EU considering.

bye,
//mirabilos
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