Scripsit Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Get him to clarify it absolutely, telling him it's a very big issue for > Debian, and don't upload till you have the official word from him.
I don't think the problem is that easy. Sure, the guy who collected the game may (in some jurisdictions) have sort of "collection copyright" on his work on choosing exactly those games to be included. The more difficult problem is the legal status of each individual game itself? Do the chess players who played it have a sort of copyright? Surely, they have made real intellectual decisions about which piece to move where, but is that a decision about content (which is not protected by copyright) or form (which is)? If so, the upstream maintainer cannot give any "official word" of legal weight. > Please encrypt email sent to me. Man, you're participating in an open email list discussion. -- Henning Makholm "Take a sad song, and make it bitter." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
