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<DIV>What Clive said. </DIV>
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<DIV>It's 4am here and I wasn't thinkin' clearly. Thanks Clive.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cliff Hancuff</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/29/2009 3:38:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
clive@davros.org writes:</DIV>
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size=2>CHancuff@aol.com said:<BR>> Edwin, some years ago there was talk of
forming a sub-group of this mailing <BR>> list to tie down the loose
ends to make this data register-able. Since <BR>> all tzcode is
derived from public domain, the only copyrightable part of it <BR>> would
be it, as a collective work.<BR><BR>Not so - there is a difference
between copyright on facts (doesn't exist)<BR>and copyright on the way those
facts are expressed (does exist). So the<BR>specific format of the data is
copyrightable. So is anything that is a<BR>guess or extrapolation.<BR><BR>>
To the best of my Intellectual Property Law knowledge, tzcode is
<BR>> intrinsically in public domain,<BR><BR>Not a concept that exists in
my jurisdiction.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Clive D.W. Feather
| If you lie to the compiler,<BR>Email: clive@davros.org
| it will get its revenge.<BR>Web: http://www.davros.org
| - Henry Spencer<BR>Mobile: +44 7973
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