On 11 Mar 2007, at 21:59, Stanley, Jon wrote:
The licence for this software has me confused. If this software is
copyright, how can it be in the public domain? If it's copyright,
under
what terms does RH have the right to distribute the software, and
as one
to whom it's willingly supplied the software (several times), what
rights do I have to further distribute it?
It says the license is LGPL in the rpm -qi that you gave below - is
that not the case? Is some other license actually included?
It's not so much the license, it's the fact that conceptually
something can't easily be both copyrighted and in the public domain.
// Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
// This file is in the public domain.
According to Wikipedia:
"Public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation
(especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and
inventions) in relation to which no person or other legal entity can
establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal
jurisdiction"
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a
particular expression of an idea or information."
It's an interesting point - one which I'm sure some of my Copyright
Lawyer "friends" would love to debate.
--
Sam
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