Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver / copyright issue

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Frank Lin PIAT 

| The records are retrieved from [1], but the website mention:
|   « The databases on this site are a service to the Go Community:"The
|     databases have been compiled by Jan van Rongen and are his
|     copyright. They can be distributed freely, as long as this 
|     copyright statement is distributed with them. The databases 
|     shall not be made part of any [non] commercially available 
|     database collection of games of go without the written 
|     permission of Jan van Rongen." »
| 
| 1. Do you think Jan van Rongen actually owns some copyright on 
|    those files (I am not sure if he played any of those games)

That's probably not relevant.  Even if they're not copyrightable by
themselves, there are database rights to be taken into consideration.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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