[pp.int.general] Fwd: <nettime> Richard Stallman: How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software

[Christian Hufgard]

Felipe Sanches wrote:
> I like the escrow proposal.
>
> But, the Bern Convention requires that the copyrights are granted
> without the need of formaly registering the work. So, that makes me
> think that requiring deposit of source code in order to copyright it
> would be incompatible with the Bern Convention.
>
> Almost all countries in the world have signed this convention.

And you furthermore have the problem that you had to force any software
company to deliver any release and any patch...


Christian