Re: Copyright question - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Copyright question
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Msg-id 4609414B.70204@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Copyright question  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Copyright question  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:31:20PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> FYI, I have received permission, below, to remove the Andrew Yu
>>> copyright.  Thanks.
>> Can't we just remove the file outright? The last release of Ultrix
>> was in 1995.
> 
> Sadly, in the US, at least, and so that file, absent sweeping changes
> in the law, will remain outside the public domain until slightly after
> the first human-crewed starship departs our solar system.

Hardly, we will have populated at least 3 solar systems by then.

> 
> If you want things to go back into the public domain after a limited
> period of time, make sure you hold your legislators to account,
> especially when Disney is lobbying them.
> 
> Cheers,
> D


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