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Re: Re-using copyrighted code

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Subject Re: Re-using copyrighted code
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> What is clear is the mandate that sets up the framework in the first
> place:
>
>   "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing
>   for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to
>   their respective Writings and Discoveries"
>                 -- USC Article I, Section 8
>
> If it doesn't "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", then
> it misses the spirit of the law as drafted.

Exactly, academia has known what this is intuitively for some time.
It's just the commercial world and the populace at large that is
confused and exploited.  This also disproves Steven D'Aprano's thesis
that monopoly rights is its purpose, but no.

> Granted, courts seem to miss that interpretation on a regular basis,
> leaving me a bit disgusted at the whole mess. :-/

Yeah, and stranger is that people *defend* the interpretation which
*takes away* their rights!

Bizarre!
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

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Re: Re-using copyrighted code Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 13:32 -0700
  Re: Re-using copyrighted code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-10 00:26 +0000
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 18:40 -0700
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-06-09 19:16 -0700
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 19:30 -0700
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-06-09 21:48 -0500
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 19:57 -0700
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 21:26 -0600
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-09 22:18 -0700
    Re: Re-using copyrighted code Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 00:26 -0700

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