From: troy silvey (tbsilvey_at_juno.com)
Date: 2002-03-28 01:44:49
Not to take sides, but this licensing biz does seem nuts to me. I should GPL the entire english language. Then every one would have to get my permission to write or speak :) >Let's forget for the moment that your email did not contain a copright notice. Using anyone's script in your own published work without giving due credit is plagiarism. Plain and simple in the USA. I can't say for other counties. Permission is not necessary though unless the work has been copyrighted. But how can we give credit to code? We all use the same code right from the original source.... Richie we just move it around. To be more serious, it seems impossible to copyright code. If I take Adam's source, move some lines around, change a few statements, then it has becomes a product of my own creativite and I could GPL it too. Not that I would bother. (Very poor creativity that would be indeed) But it happens every day in literature, music, painting... all artistic expressions. Each borrows from the other to create more and better. (We hope) You should get recognition and reward for your work, but also acknowlege those who help and inspire you. Can you copyright words (or statements/structs), copyright the colors you use to paint, the notes you use to play? If it could be done, Microsoft would already own it. GPL is a joke to me with these truths. Why come up with C#? So MS can own the langauge and any code written using C#. Evil and cleaver at the same time. Uz, your work is great and can't be denied. I bet in court your case would win over any GPL here. Posting the GPL and this "Whatever" message IS a slap to the person who inspired the work in the first place. Sorry for this dribbling message, but hurt feelings should have be handled in private mail. Once you loose it in the open, you get goobers like me responding. take care all. troy ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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