On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On 23 Dec 2002, Meir Michanie wrote: > > > I remember visiting the GNU site and getting lost there. > > I was searching for the guide: how to register a program as opensource > > GPL license. > > Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer > > GPL is a license: it details what right exactly other people have with > a code (or whatever). But before you can license it to anybody, you have > to establish the fact that it is yours to give/control: you have to state > clearly that you are the copyrights owner. > > (The hebrew term: "Zchuyot Yotsrim", "creators rights", is actually a > better name)
Copyright can be bought, sold, given away. The person who owns the copyright is not necessarily the author. Ownining the copyright does give someone the right to determine who can copy the work. Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
