Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 12:14 pm In article , suralis-s@mtu-net.ru says... > Gerry Quinn wrote: > > In article , > > gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie says... > >> 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? Not at all, especially copyright. But the principle is there. All I am pointing out is that it was not discovered in 1980! - Gerry Quinn .