Re: TUTORIAL.se soon ready but what about the Copyright?
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:36:45 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" said:
You could list yourself as author, but explicitly place your work in
the public domain. However, I am not sure what happens then, a
No. *DONT* do this. "public domain" has a specific legal meaning which
means that *nobody* has the copyright anymore. The legal ramification of
this is that you can no longer attach *any* sort of license to it as
a condition of copying - not the GPL one, not even a "By copying this,
you agree not to sue us to our skivvies if it breaks something".
If you're unsure what to do, list *yourself* as the copyright holder and
then seek competent legal advice. The only problem there is if you did
it for an employer, and it is thus a work-for-hire and your employer now
holds the copyright. But if you did it on your own hardware on your own
time, that's not an issue.
But whatever you do, don't say "this is in the public domain". Almost
any other mnis-assignment of copyright can be worked around, but that
one's permanent.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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