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It's a big if

Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:56 AM EDT

All the open licences I have seen demand that the original copyright markings
are included and usually insist on the licence text, as well.

Deriving (aka, editing) a copyright work from a GPL document that is not the
same as the original and fails to include the copyright marking and the GPL text
is an unauthorised copy and the copyright owner can sue under copyright law. The
law says that you must not copy without a licence to do so.

Works derived from a copyright work do not enter the public domain.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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It's a big if - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 09:27 AM EDT
- It's a big if - Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT

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