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David LeBlanc wrote: > I don't think TLA's are trademarkable either, but > since the W3C has bigger legal guns then I have or will ever hope to have.. > <sigh>. Sure they are. "IBM" is a registered trademark of IBM. > You can quote from it under the "fair usage" doctrine, but wholesale > importation of text is infringing. True, unless the copyright license says otherwise. > This is like a habbit i've heard of done > by the GPL gang: Taking an open source, If the document is Open Source, then making derivative works, even trivial ones, is permitted by the license. > adding some relatively small > additions to the work and then publishing (making avalilable) under the GPL Also legitimate. If the making of a derivative work is permitted by the license, then the maker can license the new work under *any* license that is not inconsistent with the terms of the license on the original work. I can create a derivative of an MIT/BSD-licensed work and license it under the GPL. I cannot license a derivative of an MPL-licensed work under the GPL, because the demands of the two licenses are incompatible. That said, if the change is really small enough, it may not generate a newly copyrightable work. Generally the FSF counts changes of less than 10 lines of a program as trivial. > with the idea that they've defeated the original copyright holder's intent. Only feebly. The new version is GPL-licensed, but the original one is still available under the original license. The public has the same rights as before: use the original version under the BSD license (or whatever), or use the new "improved" version under the GPL license. > This is clearly plagarism/theft of intellectual property. Not. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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