From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 25 1: 5:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE3E637B5AC for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 01:05:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 41061 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2000 09:05:10 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 25 Mar 2000 09:05:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:35:10 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Arun Sharma , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000324174630.041cb800@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > See above. Also, a patent makes nothing illegal; it grants an > exclusive right. So it makes it illegal to duplicate the idea/process/design without permission from the patent-holder. Usual disclaimer: IANAL. > The most recent copyright extension law removed some material > from the public domain. That would have been illegal, too, > if this principle had applied. Alas, it wasn't. I'm a bit surprised by this. Are you saying that some material was placed in the public domain (since 50 years had already passed before the new law came in) and then withdrawn from the public domain? Can you give some examples? There must be several, since we are talking of a 20 year span. As far as I knew only material that would have soon expired, like Mickey Mouse, were affected. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message