On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:37:10PM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: > I currently, and intentionally, have no copyright over the fortunes > collection. I encourage everyone to copy it and use it freely, and as > far as your system goes, you're most certainly welcome to it.
That's all we need. A full disclaimer of copyright is plenty. > As for the constituent quotes, my understanding is that they are either > so old that they are public domain, or else the relatively brief quoting > falls under the "fair use" doctrine. Yes. I believe our current fortune cookies are much likely to be objected to than this collection; we have whole poems in there. > I'm not sure if this would impact the way that you would package it in > your system- thanks for the URL on the GNU license, and I'll take a look > at it and see how it can be applied. If it needs a specific copyright > statement to be included, I probably will adopt something like that, > and I'll let you know as soon as I've officially applied whatever it needs > to the file. I wouldn't worry about, and especially not something like the GNU license. If you feel you need a CYA license, use the BSD one; the GNU one makes a lot of distinctions that are absurd in these conditions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
