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- Package: discover-data
- Debian package author: Branden Robinson <branden@progeny.com>
- Current Maintainers: David Nusinow <david_nusinow@yahoo.com>,
- Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>,
- Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>,
- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>,
- Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
-
- 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:
-
- Copyright (C) 2001 Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
- Written by Branden Robinson
-
- discover-data is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
- the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
- Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- discover-data is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
- WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
- discover-data; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
-
- On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License is available
- in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL as part of the base-files package.
-