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Rick Jelliffe wrote: > One thing you should do to minimize any copyright if you are worried is to > reformat the source code, and replace all comments with your own. Comments > and layout both have "originality", which certainly may be copyrighted. That doesn't help. Such a document is a derivative work, and the right to make derivative works is one of the copyright owner's rights. Unless you have a public or private license, you may not make derivative works. Note that a derivative work need not share a single bit with the original, as in the case of a text translated into another language. Contrariwise, two photographs of the same subject from the same viewpoint in the same light may be pixel-for-pixel identical and yet have entirely separate copyrights. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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