Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses
mentioned.
This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my
intellectual property back....
Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own
software, no need to get anything "back". Even in outdated Copyright
terms a "use as you like" should not mean "take ownership".
I don't think that's necessarily the case. If you don't make a clear
statement of ownership in every accessible file then it's difficult to
claim that it's not in the public domain (or "res nullius"),
In contrary, nobody can state then that it *is* in the public domain.
that's why
classic IBM operating systems and HP calculator firmware are now being
distributed freely.
Not legally in the EU, at least not with consent of the rights holder.
Ownership expires after some time, perhaps the old Copyright protection
has expired now? Otherwise ownership expires 70 years after the *death*
of the author, what unlikely happened for software yet :-]
In current international law (Droit d'Auteur) *only* the author has
rights on his work. Everbody else must be allowed by the author to use
it. That's why a "author" note will allow to identify the person from
which one can obtain the right to use it. When the author can not be
identified, then the work is *not* in the public domain, nobody is
allowed to use it.
DoDi
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