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Article #73131Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors
From: Andrew Ginter
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1991 22:25
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1991 22:25
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In article <3NOV199114383049@minnie.me.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes: >If you want to donate your efforts to the public, that's fine. >People will love you for it. If you want to guarantee that the >code will be unavailable for commercial use, then CopyLeft it. > >If you do this you should recognize that that you are giving up >all rights to use the code in traditional commercial applications. As I understand it, the CopyLeft is still a legal copyright and when authors affix it to their work, those authors are still the legal copyright owners. If these authors later decide to use THEIR code in a commercial, non-CopyLeft'ed product, they can legally do so. The CopyLeft describes only what people with no other agreement with the author can do with the software. Or am I mistaken? Andrew Ginter, 403-220-6320, gintera@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,246c9c7ef4135c55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-03 14:35:46 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!news From: gintera@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Andrew Ginter) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors Summary: author still owns copyright? Message-ID: <1991Nov3.222548.7515@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 3 Nov 91 22:25:48 GMT References: <25096@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <3NOV199114383049@minnie.me.udel.edu> Sender: gintera@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Andrew Ginter) Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science Lines: 16