July 27, 2004
GPL Compliance for Software Developers
Works
Works
17 USC 101-102
Copyright law is about "works"
Works are "fixed in a tangible medium of expression"
Pictures shown on a screen aren't works
All works have copyright automatically
Works must be original
Most of the code I'll show here is too short to be copyrightable
Please pretend that it's not
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