On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:00:43PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I am considering packaging a couple of fortune packages (for those who > don't know, fortune is a program which displays random "fortune > cookes" from a fortune file). However, some of those a quotes from > movies, like matrixfortunes, fortune-starwars etc is this a license > problem, or are quotes ok to be redistributed? (Usually, at least in > Norway, you can quote anything you want, but I'm not sure about > collections of quotes.) > > Please keep me on the Cc list as I don't read debian-legal. Brief quotations, such as a few lines of dialogue, fall under the Fair Use exception to copyright in the U.S., and most Berne Convention countries, IIRC. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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