I misspoke. The common misconception, and inherent abuse in that community is due to people that don't understand that simply because you publish your code, your not giving up your rights to your intellectual property.
Also when you begin to get into derivative works it gets very messy. I know inside one community I was active in derivative works became a very problematic issue. People not crediting the original authors, and in some cases blatantly stealing another's work and advertising it as their own. I don't know much about the BSD license. I have looked at parts of the GNU license. Basically what I came away with was that anyone could take what I made, repackage it, and even sell it, without any sort of royalties or up front mention of the original product, so long as there was something stating it was a derivative work in the source. How many of your clients read source? Tim -----Original Message----- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:jochemd@;oli.tudelft.nl] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:59 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: got a job.. Timothy Heald wrote: > Yet another problem I have with the open source community is the idea > that everyone can claim ownership of the product of a single persons mind. Could you elaborate? For instance, I publish many code snippets and custom tags under a BSD license. How can anybody other then me claim ownership of those? Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
