On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Klaus Reimer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:16:14PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: >> To remove confusion, could you please specify which license these >> manuals or texts are under and link directly to them on DJB's >> website? > > There is no license. Hrm. Well, that usually means that all rights are reserved, and the works are protected under copyright law. Of course, since its on a webpage, copying for fair use is probably ok, so downloading it shouldn't be a big deal in countries which have a concept of fair use. > If there is no license I think it's simply completely copyrighted. Yes, that's usually the case. > But I wonder what does that mean to me. Is a program which extracts > these copyrighted texts from his website to create man pages still > legal? With the understanding that the following is not legal advice, I'd presume that such a program would still be legal, unless the DMCA could somehow be made to apply to it. > Or is the distribution of such a program legal but the use of it is > illegal? Assuming the use fell under fair use, it would be legal. It's definetly not legal for debian to distribute the man pages, but I don't think it would be a big deal for users to use such a program. [I'd be really surprised if someone couldn't get Betamax to apply to such a usage.] Don Armstrong -- Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved. Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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