Re: [commit/6.2] Fix lib (C)s; Was: src/gdb/testsuite ChangeLog lib/insight-suppor ...

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

> > So if you consider the license part of the protected work, and thus,
> > changing just the license text to be creating a new derivative work,
> > then you need to update the copyright date.
> > If you don't, you don't need to update the copyright date.
>
> Yeah, I believe that too.
>
> But I think the text quoted (in the URL Andrew cited) is long enough
> to make it worthwhile.

It's not the length of the text that makes it able to be protected (my 
dictionary keeps claiming protectable is not a word, so it must be a 
lawyer word).
A phone book is very long, but not able to be protected at all (Much to 
their chagrin :P).
The text quoted has to meet a set of requirements for originality, etc, 
in order to be able to be protected.
I don't believe it does.

> Michael C