On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:55:11AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > > > > > > > You do not seem to understand how copyright works. When published, a > > work is subject to a set of restrictions, laid down by copyright law. > > A license grants rights (under conditions or restrictions) to the > > receiver of a work. No license means no extra rights, which means the > > default defined by copyright law applies. If you want to publish a > > work as public domain, you must include a license saying so. > > > > -Otto > > > > > Now this is interesting... > > Does anything supersede Copyright Law? > > What if I release my work as Anonymous with > no text in regards to licensing? > > Does anyone wanting to use that work in OpenBSD > actually have to track down who "Anonymous" was? > Does the code become useless if its ownership > cannot be transferred? In other words.. is there no > such thing as genuine "public domain"?
Yes, it's a tricky question. As for OpenBSD, we do not include anonymous work. A work can be public domain if the copyright expires. In some jurisdictions, a work can be put into the public domain by the author. If a work is anonymous and the copyright is not expired, it is NOT public domain. -Otto