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Only the verbatim design documents are copyrighted. The ideas in them are protected as free speech.
by erikpukinskis 10y ago
Only the verbatim design documents are copyrighted. The ideas in them are protected as free speech.
- njharman 10y agoThings don't need to be "protected" to be free. Free is the natural legal state. There has to be laws passed to grant monopolies. Hence why copyright, patent, etc are laws. And "ideas" aren't a protected form of free speech.