From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24274 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2004 17:34:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24238 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 17:34:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dberlin.org) (69.3.5.6) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 17:34:33 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.7] (account dberlin HELO [192.168.1.7]) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b6) with ESMTP-TLS id 7101019; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:34:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040720051842.8D7B74B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> References: <20040720051842.8D7B74B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0ADC4DDB-DA73-11D8-8727-000A95DA505C@dberlin.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Daniel Berlin Subject: Re: [commit/6.2] Fix lib (C)s; Was: src/gdb/testsuite ChangeLog lib/insight-suppor ... Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:34:00 -0000 To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00254.txt.bz2 On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >> So if you consider the license part of the protected work, and thus, >> changing just the license text to be creating a new derivative work, >> then you need to update the copyright date. >> If you don't, you don't need to update the copyright date. > > Yeah, I believe that too. > > But I think the text quoted (in the URL Andrew cited) is long enough > to make it worthwhile. It's not the length of the text that makes it able to be protected (my dictionary keeps claiming protectable is not a word, so it must be a lawyer word). A phone book is very long, but not able to be protected at all (Much to their chagrin :P). The text quoted has to meet a set of requirements for originality, etc, in order to be able to be protected. I don't believe it does. > > Michael C