On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:[CCed to Andrew McMillan; please see item 3 below. Feel free to ignore the rest of the message.] Eddy Petrisor wrote: > Now comes in the tricky part: > The copyright holder believes in free software, but he doesn't want his > work to be used in proprietary projects. So he wants some sort of > license that would be simillar to GPL, but fitted for a dictionary. OK; that goal is definitely doable, through the use of a copyleft Free Software license.Not in countries where a word list cannot be copyrighted, like the U.S...
And the UK ...Although in the UK we do have "database rights", where the effort put into compiling the list is considered a "protectable interest". This would protect a word list from literal copying. So a requirement that any modifications are distributed for free along with the original would probably be enforceable under UK law, just not under copyright.
Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999