From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/08 Message-ID: <7h1e93$e50$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475505719 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <372F2C65.4B7663C5@doc.ic.ac.uk> <372F36AB.55833EA6@doc.ic.ac.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.10 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat May 08 13:30:11 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) Date: 1999-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Barry Margolin wrote: > They are, but in some cases copying small snippets out of a larger work > might be fair use, and hence not infringing. I know of no court cases that would back up this claim, can you give a reference. It would definitely be of interest to know if any court has established this principle clearly. Robert Dewar -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own