[Ilugc] Auto e-mail greeter program
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Mon Oct 16 17:51:48 2006
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Rahul,
Now that we are about it let me get some free consultancy from you. :-)
I have mentioned without any thought that It is
"Copyright Girish Venkatachalam 2006 2010" or something.
What does that mean? What has copyright got to do with licensing?
And ....
I don't even know what to ask since I am completely ignorant.
Can you please elucidate?
Copyright is the exclusive and automatic right on any work that you
create. It covers the creative expression of your idea. A copyright
license would allow you to dictate the terms under which your original
rights can be exercised by others. Copyright licenses unlike contracts
does not cover actual execution or usage of the program. The difference
between a proprietary license and a Free software license is the
spectrum of rights you grant to users (ie) freedom to copy, creative
derivative works and redistribute the program. Permissive licenses such
as MIT or BSD license does not impose restrictions on redistributions
while "copyleft" licenses like the GPL do.
Rahul
PS: I am not a lawyer. Just relatively fortunate enough to have been
forced to understand these ideas working in a distribution level.
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