From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 22:28:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD76D37B8FA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 16544 invoked from network); 14 May 2000 05:28:49 -0000 Received: from du38.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.38) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 14 May 2000 05:28:49 -0000 Message-ID: <391E28F8.EB2C7028@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:18:00 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: No X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > Chess games cannot be copyrighted. I don't know if you play chess, > but if you do, you must know that chess games can be works of art, > they can be extremely nontrivial, and contain exhilarating, new > ideas that noone before had thought of. > > And yet, if you publish a game that you played, everyone is legally > and morally free to republish it however he wants, without paying you > a dime. Why? Because chess games are not intellectual property. A real game possibly can't be copyright, but an account or description of a game certainly can be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message