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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:50:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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How about 7% of code max that can pollute the headers and not taint the
closed source.


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Ahh, but that's 7 seconds of *PREFORMED* music.  This implies that no
> matter how much past work has gone into it, if it can be run in under 7
> seconds it can't be copyrighted.  I rather like this interpretation.
> 	Nick
> 
> On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Lang?s wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > 7 seconds for music.
> > 
> > What's 7 seconds worth of code? :)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dana Lacoste
> > Ottawa, Canada
> > 
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