Re: aspell-nl license
Kevin Atkinson <kevin@atkinson.dhs.org> writes:
Standard IANAL-disclaimer.
>> Could someone please clarify the situation to me? Is a copyright on a
>> word list even valid?
>
> There is good reason to believe this is not the case (at least in the US)
> based on the "Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service
> Company, Inc." Supreme Court case
I would be pretty sure that a phonebook is protected in the European
Union by the Database Directive. At least as implementet in danish
copyright laws.
I have no idea if a flat word list is protected but add grammatic
information I think it would be protected.
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