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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:16:49 -0500 (EST)
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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7% of the code you're takeing from, or 7% of the code you're adding
to?  Either of these can be abused badly.  What do you
count?  Words?  Lines?  Uncommented lines?  Non-blank uncommented
lines?  I think it should and can be argued that the 7 second rule is
sound for code as well as music.
	Nick

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> 
> 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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> Andre Hedrick
> LAD Storage Consulting Group
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