On Thursday 01 July 2010 18:45:28 Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote: > > no - according to Indian law, one has to explicitly throw the work into > > public domain. At present he has the copyright to the application, and > > since he has not licensed it and given permission for people to download, > > use and modify it, anyone doing so is breaking the law. > > Nopes, since he has put the details of it on a public mailing list that is > searchable on google, etc, he has implicitly given permission to download > and use it, not ofcourse to modify it. He still owns the copyright to the > code. >
the prosecution would argue that he has only asked people to preview/comment on the app and the permission to download was only for this limited purpose. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
