Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:32:49 02/24/04
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On February 24, 2004 at 15:22:54, Martin Andersen2 wrote: >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. http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm http://www.pdinfo.com/copyrt.htm
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