Hi, I have to say, that I'm not a lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt!
On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 1:24:19 PM UTC+1, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Appreciate your detail on this but it misses something. > > Say a person writes a Tiddler in a TW of "text to be read". What is the > problem copying it if the "site" indicates NO copyright conditions? > As you wrote: "text to be read" ... NOT "text to be copy/pasted and republished", so it looks like "your text". In most countries you can't avoid copyright. It will be there, even if you (the creator) don't mention it. Copyright is a legal right, so it will be different, according to local law. see US-copyright <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright> and EU-copyright <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union> and others. There is a mechanism, that is called "fair-use", which handles *exceptions *from *copyright-violations*. ... But I wouldn't bet my financial live on fair-use. As you can see, ... it's complicated. ... BUT it could be so simple! ... if authors would do their users a favour and assign a proper license. have fun! mario PS: A license is NOT copyright is NOT a licence! PPS: -------- Additional info, ... As you can see in section 2.1 of TW CLA: Copyright License <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/licenses/cla-individual.md#21-copyright-license>, (a) You retain ownership of the Copyright in Your Contribution and have the > same rights to use or license the Contribution which You would have had > without entering into the Agreement. > This basically means, something that you contributed to TW, still belongs to you, and outside of TW you can do with it, what every you want. So the copyright is bound to you as a person. Section 2.1 b) allows other TW contributors, to change your contribution. ... So it let's the devs do what they want ;) 2.3 Outbound License <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/licenses/cla-individual.md#23-outbound-license>, defines TW code is BSD 3-clause <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause> and the docs is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> (CC-BY) ... Which makes it easier for TW users, because it defines the rights for the whole project. ... in 2.3 we are allowed to do that, because of 2.1 and 2.2. -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/96aa7450-07b8-4e1e-aafa-89ad9fc5ddfc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
