Remember, also, at least according to the Free Software Foundation, that the authors of a program are not able to copyright, patent or license the data which a user produces with a program. E.G. SWORD cannot force a particular license on the content of Personal commentary modules, Microsoft can't claim copyright of the output of the Word documents, etc., even if they can patent the format of a Word document. I don't know where this program sits in the range between generating the output for a user versus just displaying it - and it's encouraging if the person who owns the tool recognizes all productions as PD.
--Greg On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:36 AM, jhphx<jh...@cox.net> wrote: > One thing to keep in mind about maps and copyright is that as with all > copyrights facts are not what is copyrighted. The location of towns, rivers, > roads and other factual features of geography are not copyrightable. It is > other things about a map, such as the legend, that are protected by > copyright. Remember too that other laws, not just copyright, can be > protecting data. > > Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
