--- Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone care to comment / speculate how much a > standard can cover by > Copyright? Whether symbols looking similar (or the > same, even) are in > breach of Copyright? If one symbol on its own isn't, > is there some > "literary work" in the database (ie. the list of > symbols). It would be > very difficult to reproduce a library of symbols > without copying or > referring to that.
The scenes a faire doctrine should allow a free implementation of something similar. However given that the IEC is litigous, it would probably mean a court fight including an appeal. I would expect to win in the end provided the symbols just looked really similar and weren't actually coppied, but who wants to pay for the fight. See http://www.ivanhoffman.com/scenes.html for more info on the doctrine. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user