[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 08:44:03 UTC 2009


Hoi,
That is only for US law. It is also debatable if this is just "sweat of the
brow" because a lot of creativity is involved in creating this collection.
It does not even necessarily apply to you as you are in a different
jurisdiction.
Thanks,
      Gerard

2009/1/9 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>

> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > That is a bit simplistic. It takes a huge effort to create dumps. The
> dump
> > of the English language Wikipedia is even notoriously difficult to
> create.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
>
> Huge effort is not copyrightable.
>
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