Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Let's take an example from the writing profession. Suppose you write a > good book. Would you like credit for it? Would you like people who > distribute it to do so under an open license? Or perhaps you want a > portion of the revenue. Whatever it might be, you would give people a > license so they only use your work in the way you like. A JCA would not > give you that control. > Well, books are different to journalism; and it seems to me that a macro is more like journalism. I can't stop other people using my work in all sorts of ways. I don't think I should be able to. What joint copyright alows is that I should be able to use my own work freely. this is actually unusual in the commercial world. If I write something for company X and they don't use it, I may well need their permission to sell it on to company Y. To the exttent that open source stuff is like folk music, it is built in that people will use it in ways which the originators would dislike. Someoe may be at the moment counting words I think should not be published, using my macro. So what? -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
