On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 someone wrote:
the problem is to copyright something like 'internationalisation of pd' or 'unit testing in pd' which are really ( or should be ) common and shared concepts.
AFAIK, since 1978, it is *not* possible to *not* copyright a work. The best that can be done is to put a free license on it. The legal applicability of all software licenses depends on the validity of the copyright. This includes free licenses, which are designed to proclaim freedom in a way that the legal system understands.
I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S., copyright just became default then. But you can still put stuff in the public domain, you just have to do so explicitly, where as before new works were automatically public domain unless you explicitly declared and registered the copyright.
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None of the locales for pd bear any copyright notice, but it doesn't mean that they're not copyrighted by their respective authors. Those works are attributed to their authors.
PureUnity is released under the GNU General Public License, which is a free license according to both the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative.
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