On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:03:11PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The history section in my book, which is declared invarient in the > license, was written by Ian M. and has no technical bearing on the rest of > the book's content, but has every reason to be "protected" from > modification. These particular words have a value that must be protected. I'll put you down as being in favor of eternal copyright, then. "The Congress shall have the power to PROMOTE THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS, by securing for LIMITED TIMES to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" (Emphasis added.) What a tragedy that the value of all works published before 1926 has been irrevocably lost because we're not protecting them anymore. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk branden@debian.org | around on the Moon?" http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they wore heavy boots."
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