Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:23:42 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010823012340.A4824@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200108220624.f7M6OuW72563@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:24:56AM -0600 References: <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010821091441.F21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <006e01c12a43$48f9cb30$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010821114020.T313@blossom.cjclark.org> <20010821231841.B96292@hades.hell.gr> <20010821153116.Z313@blossom.cjclark.org> <15234.58543.854779.892964@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010822092358.L21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <15234.61394.346674.66625@nomad.yogotech.com> <200108220624.f7M6OuW72563@harmony.village.org>
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From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:24:56AM -0600 > In message <15234.61394.346674.66625@nomad.yogotech.com> Nate Williams writes: > : > > : > Once it's in the Public Domain you have abandoned your claim to copyright. > : > : On that released version, yes. But, not on subsuquent versions. I > : still maintain my rights to do with the code as I please. > > Then you are creating a new work, based on the public domain work that > went before it. Yes, and no. Distributing the exact same sources (with an extra copyright part) that says somebody should not copy and distribute it, as if it were in the public domain, a few weeks after is probably fraud. Arguments like "but I put extra work in this second distribution, since I made this nifty packaging with bright colours and the CDROM contains those awesome .jpeg images of my new keyboard" will probably sound a bit funny. The truth is that this is getting hairy. If you release something in the public domain, and then add value to it by changing a few things here and there, this is clearly a 'derivative' work. You do have the right to put any license you want on the derivative, of course - just like everyone else can put their own license on their own derivative works. So you are essentially very right ;-) -giorgos [ Isn't this thread by now more fit to -chat? ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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