[License-review] veto against Unlicence

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri May 15 05:42:16 UTC 2020


* Thorsten Glaser:

>>(b) violation is a statutory crime even without prosecution.
>
> § 106 UrhG (use of a protected work without permission), which in
> itself is indeed only prosecuted on request, EXCEPT if § 108a also
> applies (doing so commercially). See
> http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJNR012730965BJNE014804377
> and the following paragraphs (§ 108a is excepted from § 109).

That's a problem with the German criminal code and needs to be fixed
there.  It should not determine which licensed get approved by OSI.



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