Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:47:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: ragnar@sysabend.org Cc: mellon@pobox.com, tms2@mail.ptd.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000516154703.7DE5037B92A@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005160643060.19841-100000@moo.sysabend.org> (message from Jamie Bowden on Tue, 16 May 2000 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT))
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> > Copyright is not congressional law. Copyright is written into the main > body of the Constitution. > Jamie, You are right. I should have remembered that ;( Article I, Section 8: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; which Congress has used a the basis of copyright law. without copyright law, we would not know how long the "limited times to authors and inventors" get to hold their "exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". per the constitution, one simply can not say what the time period should be. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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