On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Ron Artstein wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Maor Meir wrote: > > > an ideal license as far as I am concerned would allow others to > > use my work convinient while making sure I get appropreate > > credit for my work but not allow anyone to attach my name to > > any junk some how related to something I wrote. > > Wouldn't putting your work in the public domain achieve just that? > I'm no legal expert, but my understanding is that for works in the > public domain, people are still under the obligation to give credit > where appropriate, or at least not claim credit for themselves when > inappropriate. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You're wrong. Public domain texts need not be attibuted when quoted or even used in entrity. Consider the Bible, the US Constitution, or works of Shakesphere. You may quote a significat portion (or all) of these texts without attributing the original author. You may not, however, claim you wrote these texts, due to the simple fact that you didn't. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- ... the MYSTERIANS are in here with my CORDUROY SOAP DISH!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
