* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 16:05]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > But: Most of the mails here are not copyright-able at all, and thus > > have no license status and can be included everywhere and even in > > main.
> Really? If I send a script in a email without license notice, it makes > it free software? You should perhaps try to learn reading mails. I said "most", and said that on purpose. Trivial things are not copyrightable, and most mails consist of trivial things. If I e.g. say that you can put a "alias vi=vim" in your .bashrc, than this is not copyrightable at all, and you can tell that to everybody without asking me at alle. It's not "free" (free as used in common language), but it's not copyrightable, and therefore meets the DFSG criterias, and it's free acording to Debians standards. It's nothing specific about mails. However, it's a matter of fact that mails are quite often trivial, and are quite more often trivial than e.g. a story. (But I remember a case where a real story on paper was juged to be too trivial to be copyrighted; that case was in Germany.) (However, in some states you're not allowed to reveal private information to the public, but d-l is a public forum and so this rules doesn't apply here.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
