Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Serge Skorokhodov (216716244) Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 11:09 pm Gerry Quinn wrote: > 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! > But it wasn't about prohibiting cytation of scientific papaers either. .