On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 04:09 +0200, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Quoting hard off hard.off@gmail.com:
jamie, my diy collection has no licence, no need for credit., etc.. i'm more than happy for you to do whatever and use it.
each and every piece of software has a licence. just because you haven't manually assigned a license, doesn't mean
that you have chosen the "no licence" option.
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That's true, content defaults to 'all rights reserved' by the copyright holder -- the content author unless a license is supplied explicitly . However, by emailing me and writing "jamie, my diy collection has no licence, no need for credit., etc.. i'm more than happy for you to do whatever and use it." hard off is effectively supplying a license to me to use the software to do whatever I like.
That said, I think it would be great if the collection had a license.txt with a similar sentence inside it so that the Public Domain intentions of the author are clear to everyone.
best,
Jamie