On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: HE> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: HE> HE> BR> If these keymaps are part of OSX and not XDarwin (which I'm assuming HE> BR> is just a port of XFree86 and is licensed under the same terms) you HE> BR> can't do that. You'd be violating Apple's copyright if you pull them HE> BR> over directly (it'd be a derivative work which is protected under HE> BR> copyright). HE> HE> Okay, then I am not going to distribute them. At least the copyright law HE> where I live allows me to adopt (convert, patch, binary patch, whatever) HE> any software I have licensed to work in my environment so I see fit. This HE> means I can take this information and use it on my Mandrake Linux HE> installation as long as I do not distribute it.
Hmm, also in order to have copyright on something the work has to be unique and not easily reproducable without looking at it. As anyone could type that command sequence by just reading the keycodes from the keyboard, even though it would take some time, the work can not be considered unique enough to fall under copyright law. Hence the copyright on it is void. -- http://www.edlund.org/
