From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 00:26:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26728106566B for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bernt@bah.homeip.net) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9630C8FC08 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kw.homeip.net (c80-217-64-49.bredband.comhem.se [80.217.64.49]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p5K0Q8Zo067779 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:26:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bernt@bah.homeip.net) Message-ID: <4DFE9390.2030001@bah.homeip.net> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:25:52 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110508 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110616152941.GL5630@external.screwed.box> <201106161154.06300.rsimmons0@gmail.com> <20110616162032.GN5630@external.screwed.box> <3d43539af0e60964a0406b8df304f16c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <4DFAD6BF.5070307@bah.homeip.net> <4DFAE497.2030408@bah.homeip.net> <20110617162851.GC73147@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110617162851.GC73147@guilt.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:26:26 -0000 2011-06-17 18:28, Chad Perrin skrev: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:22:31AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> 2011-06-17 06:53, Adam Vande More skrev: >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: >>>> >>>> Copyright you get without registration and without payment, and one >>>> can't give it up. >>> >>> Again, registration is pretty important if you want to an expanded >>> ability to legally enforce it. >> >> Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff >> fulfills certain criteria, originality is one. > > Registration aids enforcement. Perhaps. But where i live (sweden) you can't register copyright. It is granted you if certain criteria is fulfilled. >>> And you can assign your copyright away. >> >> Only the monetary. The creator can sell the right to make copys of the >> work but the creator still retains the copyright. > > That depends on jurisdiction. In the US, you can negate copyright > entirely by assigning something you have created to the public domain. In Sweden you can not. On the other hand you can choose not to sue. > The fact this is not applicable everywhere is the reason for things like > the CC0 waiver, however. What is CC0? I've set freebsd-chat as follow-up