On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:11:11AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Lewis Jardine <debian@catbox.co.uk> writes: > > > In the case of data tables, in many jurisdictions, a mere collection of > > facts is not copyrightable; the classic example is a telephone directory > > (everything in it is an uncreative fact; that there are thousands of > > them, which may have taken a lot of effort to gather, is immaterial). > > > > It may be the case that the data could be plucked from the RFC and > > freely distributed, albeit only in places that don't allow 'sweat of the > > brow' copyrights. > > I know I answered this already, but I thought I'd add that > licensing@gnu.org suggested that the tables from RFC 3454 might not be > copyrightable, because they lack the creativity required for > copyright. So to take the example of libidn, which extract tables > from 3454, this could mean it could stay in Debian anyway, I think. > They mentioned 'sweat of the brow' though. Which jurisdictions allow > for that kind of copyright? Pretty much everybody but the US, unfortunately. This is lawyer-bait, we can't really afford to go there. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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