Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Serge Skorokhodov (216716244) Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 08:02 pm Gerry Quinn wrote: > In article , > gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie says... > >> In article , >> suralis-s@mtu-net.ru says... >> >>> Gerry Quinn wrote: > > >>> IP is a kind of ownership of knowledge to the great >>> extent. It was hardly possible to even think of before >>> 1980's >> >> First copyright law is generally said to be the Statute of >> Anne, 1710. > > > And patents date from the fifteenth century. > I hope you wouldn't deny that the restrictions in those documents differ very much from the modern legislation? -- Serge .