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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-12 02:53:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1013511233 28560 129.241.83.82 (12 Feb 2002 10:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19912 Date: 2002-02-12T10:53:53+00:00 List-Id: On 12 Feb 2002 06:20:39 GMT, David Starner wrote: > > It's considerably more hairy then that, and no country I know of still > requires copyrights to be renewed, but yes, Shakespear is in the public > domain. I thought that after 50-75 years after the death of say an author her/his copyright expired, but as Dewar says it is best to read up on copyright laws elsewhere. > A copyright requires creative work, at least in the US. Just taking a Many of the software patents doesn't make it look like it needs much creative work. ;-) -- Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�