Copyright on Collections

[Nick Moffitt]

Quoting bruce at perens.com:
> You can copyright a compilation, yes, but I don't see how the
> copyright could be made to apply to the individual works. So, you
> could prevent someone from making a knock-off copy of Red Hat
> without restricting Linux distributions in general.

        Exactly.  You used Red Hat as an example, but I imagined that
this was what Corel was going to pull out of their hat when the
license fiasco hit the fan.  

> I don't know of a single distribution that asserts a compilation
> copyright, though. It would annoy too many people.

        Naturally.  However, it would be better than doing what SuSE
did, which was to make the distribution rely on a piece of proprietary
software to run.  YaST was licensed to keep people from simply
reselling SuSE without permission.

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