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Re: If DFSG apply to non-software, is GPL*L* incompatible with DFSG?



On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:52:36PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> > The legal terms are not copyrightable;
> 
> In some jurisdictions, perhaps, but not all. Moreover, in Veeck v
> SBCCI we see that only federal, state and local laws are denied the
> protection of copyrights (in addition to the classes of works
> specificaly denied by the constitution.)

You rock.  Did you have this cite off the top of your head?  I'm always
trying to remember this one.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    I must confess to being surprised
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    by the magnitude of incompatibility
branden@debian.org                 |    with such a minor version bump.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Manoj Srivastava

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