Perhaps it might be fruitful to shoot an email to the author of said not-so-free app and ask for permission?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Ben Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I probably don't have much of a legal mind, but...it would seem odd >>> to me if a list of file extensions could really be copyrighted. >> >> It still was a significant amount of work that someone else did that I >> totally stole. It would have taken me a long time to: >> >> a) Come up with that list >> >> b) Convert it to the pref format that OS X needs > > IANAL. I'm also in Australia, and have no idea under what legal > jurisdiction MacVim falls, or the aforementioned not-so-free app, or > whether it really matters. But...I do know, or think I know, that > > - The amount of work put into it is irrelevant. > - Nonetheless copyright may well subsist in the 'compilation' of those > associations, i.e. the selection and arrangement of them (so, yes the > 'coming up with the list' part does make it copyright; not because it > was a lot of work, but because it was essentially creative work). > - Copyright wouldn't subsist in the individual associations themselves, > which is the kinda obvious thing: just because one person associates a > filetype to an app doesn't mean nobody else can do the same! > > So, yeah, I believe basically you can come up with your own list which > incidentally will have similar associations to a lot of other people's > lists, but you can't just rip someone else's list unless it has a > compatible license. > > Ben. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
