On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: > Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Um no. This is not a statement of rights. It is merely an assessment of > > how the DEC word list author views the situation. He assigns no > > additional copyright to his work. > > Who holds the copyright then? DEC? Does anyone even hold a copyright > on the list? > > Prior to the above quoted clause, the license states: > > To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these > wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least > for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with > the authors of the lists, whenever they were known. > > Any idea what "the files I used to build these wordlists" were? If they > weren't wordlists themselves, then there is no issue here. Is this what > RMS was referring to?
I do not have a clue. I suggest someone contacts RMS on this matter. Do not expect me to because I am sick of this whole discussion. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
