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Re: GNU Free Database License


From: Keith Thompson
Subject: Re: GNU Free Database License
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:19:54 GMT
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
>    The difference in creativity between giving a phone number and
>    giving a definition seems so obvious that I can't really understand
>    why you equate them.
>
> Because there is no creative thought process in giving meaning to
> words that already exist.  We know what they mean.  I have already
> explained this several times to you now.

As demonstrated here by the universal agreement on what is or is not a
"definition" or a "dictionary".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center             <*>  <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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