How is this a hole? The copyright for the output of a program is owned by the person running the program and the owner of the copyright for the data that is being effected by the program.

For instance: if I sing a song into a recorder on my computer and use a program to save it as an mp3, I own the copyright for the data that the program created. Now if the program has patents for the methods that it uses to create the file based upon my music, I may owe the patent owner a licensing fee, but that is different than copyright.

Copyright for software only deals with the code that created the software, not with what the software creates or changes. 

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p.s. I am not a lawyer... these are only my stupid opinions... yadayadayada

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: OT: A Modest Proposal for a GNU infrastructure license RGPL (EDITED spelling) by ignatz
in thread OT: A Modest Proposal for a GNU infrastructure license RGPL by mdupont

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