Re: BK MetaData License Problem?

From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 12:06:19 EST


>
> On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:08, Russell King wrote:
> > The way BK openlogging works, it exports personal information out of the
> > EU. This is explicitly prohibited under EU law, unless the owner of that
> > personal information has explicitly granted that it may be used in that
> > manner.
>
> You can give anyone you like your -own- personal info. That is your
> problem. What you can't do is do that with someone elses.

That's not the issue he is raising. What he is saying is that say I make a patch and E-Mail it to you, with a change log entry that says, "John Bradford did this 1337 patch", and then you pass it on to somebody outside the EU, then you've violated the EU regulation.

John.
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