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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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:<br>
<blockquote><i>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.</i><br>
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One might make a case that the entire text is functional and that
there are not any significant "artistic" elements that can be
copyrighted.<br>
<br>
I have not perused the English version of Tunisian copyright law
at <a
href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=181075">http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=181075</a><i><br>
</i>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.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Bruce<br>
<i><br>
</i>On 09/24/2012 05:12 PM, Mrad Chems Eddine wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5060F6FB.8060009@symisc.net" type="cite">We
ask for a license approval by the OSI board of our public license
for open source products,here is the link:
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.symisc.net/spl.txt">http://www.symisc.net/spl.txt</a>
<br>
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.
<br>
Best regards.
<br>
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