> As a philosophical point - in the United States, every written work is > automatically covered by copyright at the moment of creation.
This is factually false. Recipes cannot be copyrighted, nor can interface specifications, nor can telephone books, except to the degree that a compilation copyright applies. > You'll note that practically every file in the OpenLDAP source tree is > covered by one or more copyrights. To assert that things that are > copywritten cannot be distributed freely is a rather peculiar viewpoint; No one is asserting that. It's pretty clear that he either completely missed the point or didn't get the point. > things can be distributed according to the License granted by the > copyright holder. Yes, and the license in this case is non-free, so it's good that the material wasn't copyrightable in the first place. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
