Date: 06 Apr 2002 21:17:38 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <xzpvgb4tz59.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com> References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <3CAED90B.F4B7905@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com>
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Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> writes: > I thought that software licenses were meant to *restrict* your > freedoms with someone's work, not *grant* them. Wrong. Unless you are granted a license that says otherwise, all you can do with a copyrighted work is quote limited portions of it for instructional or illustrative purposes. > In other words, if you create some great unlicensed code and leave a > printout lying on the table at McDonald's, what law am I breaking by > scooping up the printout and making billions with your creation? I > thought this was exactly why most people guard as-yet-uncopyrighted > works so fiercely. There are no as-yet-uncopyrighted works. A work is copyrighted from the moment it is created until the copyright lapses or the copyright holder explicitly places the work in the public domain. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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