Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> > > Please supply a reference backing up this assertion, please.
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:54:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > I don't know a reference off the top of my head, but there are some.
> >
> > One case I recall involved a book of forms for wills. Despite these
> > being legal documents, the copyright on them was upheld.
>
> Note that there's such a thing as copyright protection on a compilation
> of non-copyrightable data (for example, phone books).
Yes. The case in question was not about compilation copyright. I
tried to signal that by saying "the copyright on them" (the individual
forms) rather than "the copyright on it" (the compilation).
Thomas
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