Bug#361846: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#361846: non-free license for core.schema

[Russ Allbery]

> As a philosophical point - in the United States, every written work is
> automatically covered by copyright at the moment of creation.

This is factually false.  Recipes cannot be copyrighted, nor can interface
specifications, nor can telephone books, except to the degree that a
compilation copyright applies.

> You'll note that practically every file in the OpenLDAP source tree is
> covered by one or more copyrights. To assert that things that are
> copywritten cannot be distributed freely is a rather peculiar viewpoint;

No one is asserting that.  It's pretty clear that he either completely
missed the point or didn't get the point.

> things can be distributed according to the License granted by the
> copyright holder.

Yes, and the license in this case is non-free, so it's good that the
material wasn't copyrightable in the first place.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>