Derek Gladding said: > Hypothetical question... Hypothetical answer below...
> If one took a spell-checker, such as Aspell, then: > > - piped the whole of Usenet through it for a couple of weeks > - automatically removed all sequences of characters that failed > - removed all duplicate words from the result > > Would the resulting list of words be a "new" creation, unencumbered by > any license attached to the spell-checker ? ;-) No, this would be a derivative work of the Usenet postings, which are copyright their authors. You'd have to get permission from all Usenet posters. --Joe
