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 /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
