Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:57:41 +0100 | From | Thomas Langås <> | Subject | Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules |
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Rik van Riel: > > The only analogy i can think of is a remix of songs, and several people > > have gotten into wonderfully large lawsuits over that. > You can copyright songs, but not individual musical notes.
Right, you need atleast a X number of notes to make it a copyrighted piece, doesn't have to be a whole song, tho. If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song, and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the minimum"-question, and with code that's hard, and you would probably need a lawyer and a few settlements in the court-systems, if not even more, to get an agreement on this.
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