[PD-dev] Political Impropriety

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 someone wrote:

> the problem is to copyright something like 'internationalisation of pd'
> or 'unit testing in pd' which are really ( or should be ) common and
> shared concepts.

AFAIK, since 1978, it is *not* possible to *not* copyright a work. The
best that can be done is to put a free license on it. The legal
applicability of all software licenses depends on the validity of the
copyright. This includes free licenses, which are designed to proclaim
freedom in a way that the legal system understands.

None of the locales for pd bear any copyright notice, but it doesn't mean
that they're not copyrighted by their respective authors. Those works are
attributed to their authors.

PureUnity is released under the GNU General Public License, which is a
free license according to both the Free Software Foundation and the Open
Source Initiative.

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