On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 04:12:08PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I freely admit that this analysis is grounded on U.S.-centric notions of > reverse engineering and "originality" as a relevant concept to > copyright. In other jurisdictions, copyrights more closely resemble > patents, and independent innovation is no defense to a claim of > copyright infringement. Good grief, there are jurisdictions where copyright law follows the first-finder-is-keeper system used by patents? I'm not sure that free software can work at all with laws like that. Do you have a list? I want to avoid visiting such countries. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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