>.Copyright applies to any creative work (creative in a fairly broad sense of > the word).
> The listing is undoubtedly licensed material of IBM, and would undoubtedly > be subject to copyright. No one is disputing the copyright, nor the copyright holder. There's no attempt here to capitalize on the copyrighted work nor to profit from its use. Copyright protection does not preclude redistributing the information or sharing it with someone else. The copyright isn't being threatened and a copyright is not a license. A book is copyrighted, but I can easily sell it, without violating copyright laws because that is how books are used. This is precisely what happens when one downloads a PDF from the IBM web-site. It is certainly copyrighted material, but it is not a copyright violation to send a copy of it in an e-mail to someone else. The information has been made publicly available, so the ideas are copyrighted, but not the physical distribution media itself. The listing was made freely available [as was the source code] without any apparent separate agreement, so the hardcopy doesn't involve any particular licensing issues. Simply having a printed copy does not violate any copyright laws unless that is expressly indicated in the terms and conditions, again this is unlikely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
