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On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:44:54PM +0200, Tony Clark (tclark@×××××.com) wrote: |
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> > Copyrighted works which do not include a license are still protected by |
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> > copyright law, and redistributing said works would be copyright |
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> > infringement. |
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> Which town, state, country, continent are you talking about? |
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I am talking about most of WIPO's member states [1]. Requiring copyright |
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notices is not allowed under the Berne convention [2]. |
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Many of the win32 codecs in question contain copyright notices where one |
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would expect to find them: in the PE header. |
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> This is really off-topic on a technical list like gentoo-dev |
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There is no gentoo-legal. I would consider it off-topic if there was a |
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more appropriate gentoo list for this discussion, or if official Gentoo |
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policy is to ignore copyright issues. |
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[1] http://www.wipo.org/members/members/index.html |
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[2] http://www.wipo.int/treaties/ip/berne/index.html |
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Leaving the legal issue aside for a moment, there is still a technical |
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issue. |
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How about a "css" USE keyword for closed source software? |
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Jon Lech Johansen |
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jon@××××××××××.org |
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nanocrew.net/blog/ |
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Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus |
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omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis, |
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hoc virtutis opus. |
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