Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem
MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> Please substantiate this. UK law explicitly says that computer programs
> are literary works with the exception that moral rights do not subsist.
It is common to define coputer programs as literary works. This is done
in order to get them covered by the Berne Convention. Defining computer
programs as works sui generis (or commercial property sui generis) would
have required new treaties.
That does not mean that the same rules apply to computer programs and
other literary works. Here in Germany, for example, there's a section
for computer programs in the Urhebergesetz (Copyright Act) that replaces
nearly all regulations that apply to other literary works.
Claus
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