On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:51:49PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Copyright is the exclusive and automatic right on any work that youVery concise, to the point and simple to understand.
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
Now you are using very beautiful creative language that makes me rethink my
PS: I am not a lawyer. Just relatively fortunate enough to have been
forced to understand these ideas working in a distribution level.