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> Any compay that knowingly allows a customer of thier product to do
> this is tacitly giving up sole ownership of thier product.
Not really. It all depends how the material is licenced. Licenses such
as the Free Documentation Licence make provisions for additions and
compiliations of material without reducing the company's rights to be
regarded as owner of the material.
Admittedly, such licences have never been officially upheld in court.
However, so far, there has been no need to. These licences are widely
used, and, so far, public pressure has been all that is needed to uphold
them. It helps that the FDL and GNU GPL were drafted by a Columbia law
professor (who also spearheaded the defence for the writer of PGP), so
that the language is tight enough that any challenge would be expensive
to mount.
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"He did like the ladies, the rise and the fall
Of their ankles and dresses out on the dance floor,
The roll of the dice, the turn of the wheel,
But he took most delight in those slip jigs and reels."
-House Band, "Slip Jigs and Reels"
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