Author: Martin Andersen2
Date: 12:22:54 02/24/04
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On February 24, 2004 at 14:45:24, Dann Corbit wrote: >I think you might want to reword your site. > >If you place something into the public domain, people can do absolutely anything >they want with it. > >Besides your public domain notice, you also have a copyright notice. Those two >are not compatible. Not true. He needs to specify the license, but copyright is always part of any work. If some work is GPL, the writer has copyright, but the user is still allowed to modify, alter, copy and distribute the work, freely. The only restriction with GPL is that any changes made to the software needs to be available (source code) for easy access. Let's say a company has "borrowed" some open-source program, maybe Mplayer, and put it into their DVD-player which they have sold without source-code. The Mplayer team pulls the company to court, and for some reason Mplayer looses their GPL claim, they will still win due to copyright infrigement. Martin.
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