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- Package: discover-data
- Debian package author: Branden Robinson
-
- The contents of this package that are not in the debian/ subdirectory are
- simple compilations of data and are therefore not copyrightable in the
- United States (c.f. _Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service
- Company, Inc., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)_).
-
- _Feist_ holds that:
-
- Article I, s 8, cl. 8, of the Constitution mandates originality as a
- prerequisite for copyright protection. The constitutional requirement
- necessitates independent creation plus a modicum of creativity. Since facts
- do not owe their origin to an act of authorship, they are not original and,
- thus, are not copyrightable. Although a compilation of facts may possess
- the requisite originality because the author typically chooses which facts
- to include, in what order to place them, and how to arrange the data so
- that readers may use them effectively, copyright protection extends only to
- those components of the work that are original to the author, not to the
- facts themselves. This fact/expression dichotomy severely limits the scope
- of protection in fact-based works.
-
- Therefore, the hardware information lists that comprise the "meat" of this
- package enjoy no copyright protection and are thus in the public domain.
-
- Note, however, that a number of trademarks may be referenced in the hardware
- lists (names of vendors and products). Their usage does not imply a challenge
- to any such status, and all trademarks, service marks, etc. are the property of
- their respective owners.
-
- The remainder of this package is copyrighted and licensed as follows:
-
- Package infrastructure:
-
- Copyright 2001,2002 Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
- Copyright 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company
- Written by Branden Robinson for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
-
- lst2xml conversion script:
-
- Copyright 2002 Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
- Copyright 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company
- Written by Eric Gillespie, John R. Daily, and Josh Bressers
- for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
-
- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
- to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
- the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
- and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
- Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
- THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
- FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
- DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
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