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

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:20:18 02/02/06

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On February 01, 2006 at 23:21:14, Yakov Konoval wrote:

>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

If I write my own code and generate my own EGTBs, but I use the same methods to
reduce redundency, would I have the right to sell them even if the uncompressed
files are byte for byte identical ?

Also not a lawyer.



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