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

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@example.com>]

Ok, the wording is clumsy. I consider the work to be more than  
recycled electrons on your machine. I consider it to be owned by an  
author and specifying or not how it can be used. That is what a work  
is for me. Something that exists only on one machine with the only  
purpose of staying on that machine without interacting with anything  
else but that machine is not a work. It does not exist for the  
purpose of our discussion.

Jean-Christophe

On 8 janv. 07, at 12:17, Curt Sampson wrote:

> 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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