[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Andrés Domínguez]

2006/8/7, steve uurtamo <apoxonpoo at yahoo.com>:
> > 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.
>
> i think that it might be possible (although i am
> not a lawyer) for someone to take your code,
> modify it slightly, release it under a very
> restrictive license, and prevent _you_ from
> modifying and distributing your own code.

I don't think so.

The copyright holder has all rights. The licence lets
rights to other people. If no licence, nobody can get
copyright over you program. The copyright owner is
the author by default.

I'm not a lawyer, this is my opinion. Of course law
is different in every country.

Andrés