Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ says "Original author unknown. > > Presumably this is public domain by now." Anyone know why they > > presume that? [...] > > Possibly they're thinking it was public-domained when the author posted > the full source to usenet? Depending on the country it was posted from, > might there be some form of implied license, similar to what happens to > the copyrighted text of a mailing list post?
In general, that seems to be number 3 on the list of 10 Big Myths about copyright at http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html It's possible that it was posted from somewhere that required copyright registration. I think we'd need to be fairly sure of that, because it seems rare now and spatula files are dated 2001. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
