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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:21:01 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com>; from tech_info@threespace.com on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:50:41PM -0600
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Chip Morton said on Apr  6, 2002 at 12:50:41:
> 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.

Copyright protection is automatic; the original author doesn't have to
do anything special except prove his authorship.  So you have no
rights to that code unless he gives you some, via a licence.  You can
still use his *ideas* and make billions, ideas can't be copyrighted;
they can be patented but that is not automatic.

Rahul

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