However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files;
they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings. Do you
people think it could be suitable for main?
(Please follow-up on -legal only for licensing discussions.)
Ondrej, are you willing - if the legal
However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files;
they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings.
I don't see any reason in principle why series of numbers that
describe the mappings couldn't be protected by copyright. Could you
provide more details of why
On 28/11/2007, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Based on a quick look, these files establish a correspondence between
different character set encodings. Copyright protects creative
expression. What is the creative part of this mapping? I can see two
possible bases: character selection
John Halton writes:
However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files;
they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings.
I don't see any reason in principle why series of numbers that
describe the mappings couldn't be protected by copyright. Could you
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:43:34PM +, John Halton wrote:
On 28/11/2007, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Based on a quick look, these files establish a correspondence between
different character set encodings. Copyright protects creative
expression. What is the creative part of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes
Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
Tobias Toedter wrote:
Would it be possible for non-free programs to use that data (XML files
and translations) if iso-codes is licensed under GPL? Or would we need
to use the LGPL for this?
My first thought
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:33:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:43:34PM +, John Halton wrote:
On 28/11/2007, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Based on a quick look, these files establish a correspondence between
different character set encodings.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:33:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
FWIW, I believe a search of debian-legal archives will show that we've come
to the same conclusion before about copyrightability of non-creative
databases, and are already shipping a number of these in Debian.
Thanks, that's
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks, that's useful to know. I'm still trying to get a feel for
how Debian treats these cases where there is no express licence, how
people weigh up the legal pros and cons.
Inconsistently :-)
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