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[Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Hello

I'm not a lawyer, but have an open source software background. In open 
source it has been traditional to overlook the fact that not all states 
have signed the Berne convention on copyright  (i.e Myanmar/Burma) 
and/or are not members of the WTO (Nepal, Oman?). Our licences prevent 
us from stopping individuals in these countries using the software by 
criteria 5 of the open source definition[1] and indeed citizens and 
residents of these companies are members of the community.

There is, for example, a Linux users group in Myanmar [2] which is 
presumably generating IPR (including translations, which we are _very_ 
keen to get for "minor" languages) at some rate, which is being 
co-mingled with the other IPR of the linux kernel and the IPR of the 
various programs and documents into which they are incorporated.

Does the CC-UK address the IPR status of these documents? Is this a 
reasonable thing for a licence to address?

[1] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
[2] http://www.myanmarlug.org/
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