On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
> > Kevin Atkinson <kevin@atkinson.dhs.org> wrote:
> >> This is NOT a clear case of 'something being not freely licensed'.
> >>
> >> 1) The exact license of the DEC word list is not clear.
> >
> > and then later in the DEC description
> >
> >> (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS
> >>
> >> To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these
> >> wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least
> >> for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with
> >> the authors of the lists, whenever they were known.
> >>
> >> Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package
> >> can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for
> >> personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in
> >> commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or
> >> the authors of the original lists.)
> >
> > which is clearly not a free license.
>
> No, that's not the point.
IMHO this is exactly the point.
> Most of people who actually hold the copyrights (if they even claimed
> any copyright at all, which is doubtful), are unknown and cannot be
> contacted.
People don't need to assert copyright to have it.
yours,
peter
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