[jawsscripts] Re: License and Copyright
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:50:28 -0300
Good evening,
That is all correct as far as I am aware.
HTH,
Everett
On 26-Mar-09, at 11:33 PM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> Excellent questions, Donald -- for which I have not found answers easy
> to find, somewhat to my surprise and frustration. I can convey the
> following points with relative confidence. I invite anyone to correct
> any mistaken understandings or clarify the picture further:
>
> * You can establish a presumptive copyright of a work simply by
> stating "Copyright <year> by <unambiguous name>" when first bublished.
>
> * It is important that this notice be apparent the first time the
> work
> is made publicly available for distribution.
>
> * Further legal evidence of copyright can be obtained by filing a
> form
> with a U.S. copyright office (not sure of the exact title), but this
> is
> usually not necessary.
>
> * As the copyright owner, you can decide what rights and conditions
> to
> confer to others.
>
> * The GNU General Public License (GPL), promoted at
> http://gnu.org
> is considered the ultimate expression of "free software," to some,
> idealogically so. It requires that any derivative work is also open
> source.
>
> * Open source, as generally understood, does not mean that fees
> cannot
> be charged for technical support or other related products or
> services.
> It does mean that the source code is available at no cost or neglible
> cost.
>
> * The Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is promoted by the same
> organization as a compromise position (not its ideal). It essentially
> means that other works can use the code in binary form without
> releasing
> their own source code (e.g., a .jsb file). If they modify the source
> code, however, I think they have to release the modified version (I'm
> not as clear on this point).
>
> * The BSD license, also called Berkeley license, is less restrictive.
> Essentially, a derivative work does not have to release its source
> code
> as long as it acknowledges the source of the original work and does
> not
> use that work in a promotional manner.
>
> * The MIT license (from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is
> like the BSD license, except that it drops the prohibition against
> promotional uses.
>
> * Public domain relaxes all conditions -- the original work may be
> used
> in any manner, including selling it by others for commercial gain.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jamal
>
> On Thu,
> 26 Mar 2009, Donald Marang wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:02:47 -0400
>> From: Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] License and Copyright
>>
>> Is there any process for licensing your software or applying for a
>> copyright? Or are these things simply declared by the owner? I am
>> asking because Verizon has shown interest in my scripts for Verizon
>> Call Assistant. I intend to distribute them free to the blind
>> community. I would not want Verizon or anyone else to "steel" them
>> or profit from them.
>> Jamal, what is the first "L" in LGPL stand for? From reading your
>> description, I am guessing it stands for Limited.
>>
>> I am more familiar with the patent process. My Uncle worked for GE
>> Plastics all his life and they had a policy of a $1 award for each
>> patent! I know Microsoft and the record companies make a huge deal
>> about copyright. Is this just declared, like placing a copyright
>> notification at the bottom of a web page, or is there a legal
>> registration somewhere?
>>
>> Don Marang
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