> If it had been anyone else but them doing it, making the whole manual 
> available would be a breach of their copyright. As it's them doing it 
> it's OK to look and the circuit per se is not AFAIUI protected in any 
> way.

I dunno which law system you want to apply, but in my country *anything*
readable that is published in any way is (automatically) protected by
copyright law. Some other law systems might require a (c) notice.

Note that copyright protects the text (interpreted very broadly), not
the idea (that's what patent law is for).

Wouter van Ooijen

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