On 9/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ryan Boren</b> <<a href="mailto:ryan@boren.nu">ryan@boren.nu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:18 +0100, Podz wrote:<br>> Ryan Boren wrote:<br>"5. The Codex still does not say that copyright is retained by the<br>author."<br><br>See the laws for your country. In the US and most countries you
<br>automatically have copyright to your work and retain all rights. You<br>have to explicitly grant rights to others via a device such as the GPL.<br><br>"It does not say who may or may not make any judgements about
<br>copyright, publishing, income generation etc. Don't you think it<br>should ? It doesn't matter one bit that YOU might know - it should be<br>there in clear language for all to see and understand before they start<br>typing"
<br><br>Read the GPL. It's all in there. If someone does not understand that<br>they need to consult a lawyer.<br><br></blockquote></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works</a><br>
The Berne Convention is still alive - and copyrights are automatic, except for a very few countries.<br>
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I think the basic problem is that a lot of people here are confused
about what Copyright is, what a License is, and what the difference
between the two is.<br>
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I stop here, since there is nothing I can say about the problem - which is still not clear to me.<br>
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Carthik.<br>-- <br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>University of Central Florida<br>Homepage: <a href="http://carthik.net">http://carthik.net</a>