On 6/12/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12-Jun-07, at 6:36 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > > > any authored work must either state its copyright ownership with year, > > or must be dedicated to the pubilc domain. > > not so. Copyright arises from the fact of publication. And unless the > author states so, all rights are reserved. If he wants to license the > work, then he has to state the terms of the license. Please learn to > distinguish between copyrigth, license and patent > > Kenneth Gonsalves
thanks kenneth for the clarification, however, what i'm saying is that in today's 'bankrupt age' this is what *i've* learnt the hard way: a) that you must explicitly assert your copyright ownership by explicitly stating it while publishing. [to be understood in the current state-of-affairs] b) the license must also be stated *IF* the author wishes to share it with some forms of flexibility for end-users and others..... c) am also trying to point out how we need to take proactive but careful steps towards authoring for the public domain, while still alive. :-) thanks kenneth for the clarifications, and yes i am quite aware of the differences between copyright, copyleft, license, patent, and trademark. plus, have been advising and trying to orient publishing businesses in all forms of media to consider how to explicitly state these aspects of their authored works. the best talk i've heard in india on this topic was delivered a few years ago by dr ajay shah that was truly quite inspiring. would be wonderful to invite him to deliver a talk on this and the gpl3. he always has interesting insights to share. :-) niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
