Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:42:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <200108221242.OAA52055@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20010822092358.L21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> wrote: > Once it's in the Public Domain you have abandoned your claim to copyright. Actually, that is not possible, at least in some countries (including Germany, for example). If you're the author of some piece of software, you're the holder of the "Urheberrecht" (the rights that you have, being the author). You cannot get rid of your Copyright even if you wanted to. There is no notion of "public domain" in the law. Declaring the software to be "public domain" merely means that you attach a license to the effect that everyone can do anything with it without asking you, _but_ you are still the original author, with all associated rights that you have as such. Actually you don't even have to include a phrase like "Copyright (C) 2001 by John Doe", because it's implied. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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