[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Dave Denholm]

Joss Wright <joss at nekrodomos.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:35 +0100, Dave Denholm wrote:
>> Mark Boon <tesujisoftware at gmail.com> writes:
>> 

>> I don't think the initial license decision need be final. The
>> copyright owner is always free to re-release under multiple licenses.
>> 
>> (That will get difficult if individual source files have different
>> copyright holders. I guess all copyright holders would have to agree.)
>> 
>
> I've been following this for a while, and it has occurred to me in other
> projects: does it really have to be released under a license? If you
> really don't have anything specific that needs to be in the license
> (which is what most people's use of things like the BSD or even GPL
> license is for) then just don't use one. There is quite an obsession
> with licenses, and I do question what hideous consequences there would
> be to just putting software up without attaching a license.
>

If there's no license, I don't think anyone can do much with the code.
Copyright says it belongs to the author, and no-one else can touch it
unless a license grants additional rights. Also, copyright law is
different in different countries, which is going to cause confusion.

Commercial licenses tend to try reduce the number of things you can
do. Open licenses tend to increase the number of things you can do.

But I'm not a lawyer.

Ah - wikipedia has something to say on the subject...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-Free_Software


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