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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: SourceForge and CreativeCommons
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:13:21 -0400 (EDT)


Mike Linksvayer said:
> Evan Prodromou wrote:
>>there is not a hard-and-fast line between software and
>> other forms of creativity, and the CC licenses should be able to deal
>> with any digital artifact.
>
> Whatever line exists is getting fuzzier as more stuff has embedded code,

Software is the only medium I know of that can have
both copyright and patent restrictions applied to it.

Although I suppose Trademark is sort of like
patent protection for art and slogans. hm. interesting.

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