Nate Duehr writes: > What if I don't WANT a Copyright. The politicians and lawyers who created copyright law cannot conceive of such a thing. Consequently copyright is compulsory. The best you can do is explicitly license it for anyone to do anything they want with it.
> And that is the point I'm trying to drive home to anyone who believes > that code requires a license. It simply doesn't. If you give or sell me a copy of a work of yours I own that copy and can do as I please with it (that includes running it if it is a computer program) with no need for a license. However, copyright law forbids me to make and distribute copies of it without your permission. > Code is code, and is always Free, unless created under contract that it > remain non-Free or released under a restrictive license like the GPL or > BSD or anything else... anything other than raw code is encumbered with > non-Freedom. Code is protected by copyright by default and may not be copied and distributed without permission of the copyright owner. > it's just a point that few in the GPL fan-boy community ever even think > about, let alone really digest fully. Perhaps you should try actually reading the copyright law. It is available on line at <http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sup_01_17.html>. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
