From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20690 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2012 01:19:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 19829 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jul 2012 01:14:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "jrnieder at gmail dot com" To: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/11213] localedata licencing issues Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:19:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: critical X-Bugzilla-Who: jrnieder at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: SUSPENDED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat.com X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q3/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11213 --- Comment #15 from Jonathan Nieder 2012-07-16 01:13:54 UTC --- Hi Keld, Keld Simonsen wrote[1]: > Hmm, I contributed a number of locales. I always assumed that there was a > copyright to each of them. > I do hold a masters in legislate law. [lots of helpful background snipped, including the intent of the original notice] Thanks much for this. I'm cc-ing the SFLC since I'm not sure they automatically receive mails to that bug tracker. My guess is that the FSF's concerns that prompted the "this type of thing isn't copyrightable" answer were USA-centric. If I remember correctly, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, the eligibility of a work for copyright is based on the amount of work put into it (as you remind me), while in the United States it's based on a concept of creativity. (For the curious: I personally would be happiest if the FSF would continue not to care about these works' copyright while everyone else would consider them as possibly copyrighted. That way there is no need for copyright assignment --- less paperwork! --- but there would be no excuse not to follow the usual free software practice of documenting the explicit permission grants the authors provide.) Jonathan [1] http://sourceware.org/PR11213#c14 -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.