Re: The QPL

To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The QPL
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 29 Mar 1999 15:04:23 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87aewwqa7c.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Raul Miller's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:10:21 -0500"
References: <[🔎] E10RgoL-0004si-00@night> <[🔎] 199903291854.NAA32526@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> <[🔎] 19990329141021.A24636@rdm.legislate.com>

Raul writes:
> Fair use lets you use it as-is.

Not fair use.  It exempts some copying of portions of a work for a set of
vaguely defined purposes that amount to literary criticism.

> Copyright doesn't offer any significant protection on trivial works.

Because they lack originality.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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