Re: Copyright Digression (Was: Re: [tlug] linux in Japanese schools)

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> Which is what I mean: either there is provision for a license or there is 
> not. So it depends on the work.

I guess I don't like this phrasing because of the following situation:

    1. I create a work and do not assign copyright, thus the copyright
    remains with me. I do not license it to anybody. Thus, there is no
    license.

    2. A week later, I GPL the work and make it publically available.
    Now there is a provision for the license.

The work is the same in both cases, yet at different times, there is
not and then there is a provision for a license. Since the work is
unchanging, saying that it "depends on the work" does not make sense to me.

cjs
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