On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Scott González <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule >> > for >> > code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few >> > lines), >> > then yeah, you need some form of license. >> >> Um... Berne Convention? >> >> "Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic; it is >> prohibited to require formal registration (note however that when the >> United States joined the Convention in 1988, it continued to make >> statutory damages and attorney's fees only available for registered >> works)." > > > Copyright is automatic. Licensing is not. By default, the author owns all > the rights and nobody else has any rights. Licenses grant certain rights to > certain people.
Oh, I don't disagree; my point was that the wording "if a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright" is... misleading. -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems http://code.google.com/p/atomos/ Member of the Pirate Party of Canada http://www.pirateparty.ca/ -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
