[PD-dev] Political Impropriety

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>
> 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.

I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S., copyright just became  
default then.  But you can still put stuff in the public domain, you  
just have to do so explicitly, where as before new works were  
automatically public domain unless you explicitly declared and  
registered the copyright.

.hc

> 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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