Re: Licenses for non-software entities
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > My step-father is a lawyer, in the UK, and he says that there is no
> > special exclusion for copyright on licenses - i.e. licenses can be
> > copyrighted, and that copyright is enforceable. I'll speak to him again
> > about it, but that was definitely the story last time I asked..
>
> The Berne treaty states that it's up to each country whether copyright
> extends to legal documents. The U.S. copyright act doesn't list legal
> documents among the exclusions, so they would be copyrightable in the U.S.
> Manoj is just being provincial. :)
Hmm... so this point is still slightly worrying..
>
> BTW, has Debian deposited CDROMs with the Library of Congress? It's
> actually required by law (if you want to enforce your copyrights), and might
> be a way to meet the GPL/NPL requirements for code availability. non-free/
> could also be distributed this way if the libraries are cooperative.
> The National Library of Australia has a soon-to-be-mandatory CDROM
> deposition program as well. I could walk a set over at lunch some time.
> It's a small country.
Oh yeah. Tiny, isn't it.
I wonder if we have similar requirement over here...
Jules
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