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Date:      Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:50:41 -0600
From:      Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
To:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CAEFFAA.91525BB3@optusnet.com.au>
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At 08:01 AM 4/6/2002, Ian Pulsford wrote:
>Remember when someone makes a piece of code it has no
>licence, you can't do anything with it until you have permissions from
>the author.


I thought that software licenses were meant to *restrict* your freedoms 
with someone's work, not *grant* them.

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.

<< Chip Morton >>



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