On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > Copyright is entirely distinct from licensing. If I write a piece > of code, or acquire copyright over it by some other means, I can > choose to license it to whomever, under whatever conditions I deem > fit. > > Legal eagles can chip in, but roughly speaking, copyright has to do > with ownership, while a licence has to do with what terms and > conditions that you allow other people to use things under.
Not a legal (or any other specie, genus or phylum) of eagle, but technically you may own copyright to a work without having the rights to license it. For instance, when you write a book, the copyright vests with you but the licence to redistribute is with the publisher. I'm also not too clear on how that works, but practically that's what you end up with: copyright with one person, licensing rights with another. Regards, -- Raju _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
