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

Author: Walter Faxon

Date: 13:35:22 02/02/06

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On February 02, 2006 at 13:20:18, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>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.


If it's your work you can sell it.  Copyright has to do with copying.

But as the test proctor says, "Be prepared to show your work."

-W:)ter (also not)



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