From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 11:17:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C7B37B41B for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 37AF15309; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:17:38 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <3CAED90B.F4B7905@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Apr 2002 21:17:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip Morton writes: > I thought that software licenses were meant to *restrict* your > freedoms with someone's work, not *grant* them. Wrong. Unless you are granted a license that says otherwise, all you can do with a copyrighted work is quote limited portions of it for instructional or illustrative purposes. > In other words, if you create some great unlicensed code and leave a > printout lying on the table at McDonald's, what law am I breaking by > scooping up the printout and making billions with your creation? I > thought this was exactly why most people guard as-yet-uncopyrighted > works so fiercely. There are no as-yet-uncopyrighted works. A work is copyrighted from the moment it is created until the copyright lapses or the copyright holder explicitly places the work in the public domain. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message