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
