Pardon me for this rather odd question and I hope it won't cause any permanet damage to anyones psychological health. My interest got sparked from the thread reasoning about if public domain can be considered open source.
1) Will a work stop being open source when the copyright expires and it becomes part of the public domain ? 2) If that is the case then can you distribute a music performing program with Moonlight Sonata [1] bundled and call it open source as a whole ? 3) Furthermore if they stop being open source will they stop being open source when the term of the first copyright year mentioned in a composite work would expire or when the last would expire ? [1] http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=292 /regards Mikael Andersson .sig.se: Monader kan spr�nga ens hj�rna ... men det kan ju perl ocks�. .sig.en: Monads might blow your brain up ... and perl can do it as well. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
