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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">FWIW, there is a discussion of this question in the following article:
<a href="https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2046&context=btlj">
https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2046&context=btlj</a>, specifically in Sections III.C.6 & III.C.7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Perens via License-review<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 30, 2019 2:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> License submissions for OSI review <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] For Approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let's try that again.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Van's response was a reply to this question: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:black">><i> First, would you please discuss whether there is a sufficient public<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">><i> performance right for software defined in 17 USC 106 (4), (5) and (6)? I<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">><i> read your discussion of Public Performance and was not enlightened.*<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal">Upon re-reading, it appears that Van read my question as asking whether software was copyrightable at all, and did not really answer the question about the public performance right. This is either misunderstanding, or squirrely lawyer stuff
:-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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