From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Wed May 15 18:13:34 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 16 May 2002 01:13:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 87811 invoked from network); 16 May 2002 01:13:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 May 2002 01:13:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 May 2002 01:13:33 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g4G1DXb21846 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:13:33 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 19:13:33 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [lojban] Livagian description In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Thu, 16 May 2002, And Rosta wrote: > By the way: as I understand the law (=3D badly), one cannot > copyright a language. (Which I think is a Bad Thing.) There ought not be any problem copyrighting the grammar, the words, and all learning materials, and then licensing them such that anyone using them has to do whatever it is that you specify in the license. It would likely just be a matter of demonstrating to the court in question that they're knowingly using materials you hold the copyright to, rather than something which looks suspiciously similar. - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose