[License-review] Request for Approval: Symisc Public License (SPL)

[Bruce Perens]

Before we template the Sleepycat license, or have a version of it that 
is owned by another company, we should ask if the text of the Sleepycat 
license is copyrighted or copyrightable in any way that would prevent us 
from doing so. Under 17USC102(b) in the U.S. it might not be copyrightable:

    /In no case does copyright protection for an original work of
    authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of
    operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form
    in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in
    such work./

One might make a case that the entire text is functional and that there 
are not any significant "artistic" elements that can be copyrighted.

I have not perused the English version of Tunisian copyright law at 
http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=181075/
/to determine if there are any equivalent restrictions on copyright of 
functional elements in Tunisia that would prevent Mr. Eddine from making 
a derivative text.

     Thanks

     Bruce
/
/On 09/24/2012 05:12 PM, Mrad Chems Eddine wrote:
> We ask for a license approval by the OSI board of our public license 
> for open source products,here is the link:
> http://www.symisc.net/spl.txt
> The license is identical to the Sleepycat License,but we want our own 
> because our country (Tunisia) legislation require that any legal 
> document be the property of the incorporated company.
> Best regards.
>

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