Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:58:45PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-05-07 11:48:55 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Council Directive 91/250/EEC 14 May 1991; enacted in the UK as S.I. > >1992 > >No. 3233 > >does an

Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
a page here: http://www.jenkins-ip.com/serv/serv_6.htm has this to say: Council Directive 91/250/EEC 14 May 1991; enacted in the UK as S.I. 1992 No. 3233 does anyone here know what site can be used to obtain the document SI 1992 no 3233? ta, l. -- -- expecting email to be r

Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:00:57PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > On 2004-05-03 19:41:30 +0100 Arnoud Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >For example, consider Microsoft licensing its standard libraries > > >under GPL. > > > > People fork them and create compe

Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:33:33AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Ideas and principles are not copyrightable ever, are they? They are > the wrong side of the idea-expression boundary. Copyright only covers > expressions. > > This is not news. no: what's news is that the copy of 91/EC/250 on which i ba

Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
umdoc=31991L0250&model=guichett > > Other languages can be found by using the number 31991L0250 on EUR-Lex > via http://europa.eu.int/ > > On 2004-05-02 13:07:38 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >where such libraries could

European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

2004-05-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/et/dd/docs/1991/31991L0250-ET.doc this document outlines the circumstances under which copyright holders effectively forfeit their copyright and the sections that i wish to draw to your attention are the ones concerning "interfaces" and "interoperability at interface