Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:25:52 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free sco unix Message-ID: <4DFE9390.2030001@bah.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20110617162851.GC73147@guilt.hydra> 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> <BANLkTinfXPVu%2B3b%2B4CD_JuzfGSXeNPSVhg@mail.gmail.com> <4DFAE497.2030408@bah.homeip.net> <20110617162851.GC73147@guilt.hydra>
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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
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