Manoj wrote: > Secondly, anything without a copyright, in general, is not > public domain (as you well know). You're over-generalizing. The Berne convention covers "every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression". http://www.wipo.org/eng/general/copyrght/bern.htm Like I said, this usually does not extend to stuff you'd usually find in databases, statistics, sports scores and lots of other things. It does vary from country to country. There are some movements afoot to define new forms of intellectual property rights for these -- but none have been widely successful so far, as far as I know. The WIPO copyright treaty (WCT) does extend a little bit more protection to databases -- but it got watered down from it's original form (put forward by the U.S. I think) -- and hasn't been ratified by anybody yet: http://www.wipo.org/eng/general/copyrght/wct.htm Anyways -- the point I really wanted to make was that you could probably get away with a simple question like "Do you agree to let the Debian project use this information?" rather than writing a license. A license is a complicated, convulated legal document which everybody is going want to debate. Particularily if it fails to fall under our much-debated definition of "free". Cheers, - Jim
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