On Saturday, November 22, 2014 07:34:36 PM Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > That may be true for non-trivial licenses like GPLv3, but that's > hardly the case for very permissive licenses (like X11's), as they are > almost virtually identical to the public domain.
Please don't muddy the waters. The X11/MIT/BSD and other permissive licenses are not "virtually identical to the public domain". Public domain 1) is a legal concept that is not recognized in all countries. 2) typically involves the author(s) effectively disowning their work and deliberately waiving any privileges of copyright, including those of required attribution. As a simple example: it is perfectly legal -- although arguably quite sleazy -- to incorporate code from a public domain project into a product and make no mention of it whatsoever. It's even legal (at least in the US) to say that you wrote and own everything in such a product, even if that's not true. That is not allowed under the BSD license. There are licenses that are designed to be "virtually identical to the public domain", such as the Creative Commons Zero license. The BSD/MIT licenses ain't that. -Rob -- <Connection terminated by beer> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
