From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 23:36:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF3D37B40C for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7M6ZC535720; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:35:12 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:35:11 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Nate Williams , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Giorgos Keramidas , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , Brian Somers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010822103511.A35643@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010821091441.F21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <006e01c12a43$48f9cb30$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010821114020.T313@blossom.cjclark.org> <20010821231841.B96292@hades.hell.gr> <20010821153116.Z313@blossom.cjclark.org> <15234.58543.854779.892964@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010822092358.L21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010822092358.L21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:23:58 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > Once it's in the Public Domain you have abandoned your claim to copyright. > That is the point of the Public Domain. If you still wish to retain the > copyright and the associated rights you cannot release it into the Public > Domain. No. Copyright consist in two parts. First one is "who is the author". Second one is "what is usage/modification/publishing/etc. permissions". If you create some work, you are an author and no act including your owns can deattach author rights from you. And if you put it in Public Domain you, as author, grant anybody do anything with it. > > The Public Domain is not a license, it is an abandonment of copyright. No, "author" part of copyright can't be deattached, unless fraud happens. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message