Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> This sounds like a issue for the drivers community, nothing the OGB >> needs to be involved with. The only advice I have is you will need >> to be very careful to ensure you only copy documents for which you >> have permission from the creators, to make sure you are not violating >> either copyright or non-disclosure agreements. Just because you can >> download it freely doesn't mean you can republish it. >> > > This last comment has me concerned. I've always assumed that I could > repost a document that I downloaded off the Internet, assuming that I > didn't agree to anything stating otherwise beforehand.
While I'm not a lawyer, and Sun has plenty of those to give you legal advice, to the best of my knowledge, the complete opposite is true - unless you are explicitly given permission to reproduce or copyright is disclaimed, you cannot legally republish anything you downloaded. Under US copyright law & international copyright treaties, no notice of copyright or specification of a license is necessary - the assumption is that material is copyrighted and that you have no rights to copy it unless stated otherwise. See http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html for some more discussion of this. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
