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Subject: Re: egtb and selling.. licensing issues. {More complete versions}

Author: Yakov Konoval

Date: 20:21:14 02/01/06

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On February 01, 2006 at 20:52:47, Greg Simpson wrote:

>The access code is certainly subject to copyright, since there are many ways to
>express the ideas.  It is not so clear for the data files.  Perhaps the encoding
>method could make them subject to copyright, or it might be patented.  I think
>the uncompressed files would not be copyrightable, the same way raw address
>lists aren't.  I'm still not a lawyer.

IMO, it's absolutely clear for the data files, even uncompressed.
Using them without author's permission is illegal.

And I'm not a lawyer too :-)

YK



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