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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge
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Yeah, but what does that mean? You make a post to a newsgroup. I reply to
that post, clipping off various sections - including your name. You get to
sue me for a million Euros because I copied some part of your work and
didn't leave your name on it? Seems kind of impractical to me.

MDC
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
news:3C68014C.928B8F57@nbi.dk...
>
> EU copyright law has what is effectively a ban on "public
> domain".  The creator of a work will always have copyright
> to it (in the sense "the right to have his/her name on the
> work and people not changing it without asking him/her") and
> this right can not be sold or in any other way given away.
> But laws and similar works are not covered by copyright.
>