Re: gpl licensing

[John Hasler]

Rui Miguel writes:
> Well, but they work completely different from copyright,
> name-calling-Alexander...

> And from patents... which work in almost exactly the opposite form of
> trade secrets.

Patents, copyrights, and to a lesser extent trademarks are all
transferrable "rights against the world" and thus have enough of the
characteristics of property to be treated as a form of property by the law.
The only reason for classing trade secrets as intellectual property is that
the same lawyers deal with them as with patents etc.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA