Rudy Lippan wrote:
So what I would like to do is tie the license of the software to the user of the software respecting the licenses of the community-distributed components they use, whether or not the individual component is eligible for copyright protection.
You can't have a licence unless some rights are restricted without it. If there really is no intellectual property in the components you mention, they don't need, and can't have a licence.
Also note that, in the UK, some of your examples would be protected by copyright law (database copyrights).
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