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  • From: Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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  • Subject: [Cc-uk] CC-UK and non Berne convention states
  • Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:03:46 +0000

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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Stuart Yeates stuart.yeates AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
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  • [Cc-uk] CC-UK and non Berne convention states, Stuart Yeates, 12/06/2004

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