|| On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:05:48 -0400 || bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen) wrote: bts> A reference card has a subset of commands, chosen for bts> usefulness, elegance, or aesthetic appeal. It has succinct bts> descriptions, which are a creative effort. It is definitely bts> copyrightable on either of those points. Although you phrase it that way, you are in fact not contradicting any of what I wrote. One can certainly argue that the choice of subset as well as the way they are presented are Copyrightable. But then only those parts would be Copyrightable, not the references themselves. bts> I'm not at all sure what to say to this. Are you talking about bts> Berne Convention copyright law? Also, but not only. Berne is very loose and leaves a lot of room for the national initiatives. Also there is Stockholm. Then there are the national laws that need to be taken into account. Naturally, I'm more familiar with the European Copyright -- or Droit d'Auteur, rather -- systems, but since Europe is a very active region for Free Software, considering the European situation seems useful. bts> Are you really asserting that the comments and strings in a bts> source file labelled as being under the GPL might not be under bts> the GPL? I wrote no such thing. It might be interesting to find the grey areas for that, but normally one would probably see the comments and strings as parts of the program rather than an independent document. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <greve@gnu.org> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)
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