Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:05:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:08:30PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> > Certainly, the backports.org keyring is useful to some people, *but* it is,
> >
> >   1. not free software
>
> I don't think there's a legal basis to claim copyright on a blob of random
> bytes generated by a program.  Who's the copyright holder?  gpg?  The authors
> of gpg?  The person who typed gpg in command-line?  The entropy source?

Copyright (in the United States) requires an original creation.
Generating several prime numbers for a purely functional purpose is not
at all original and hence not copyrightable.

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