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By: Suhasini

Suhasini — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:52:33 +0000

Copyright is been explained in better way in the above article.Its also a good practice to cite the source whenever you use the information of others.

Even if the content is rewritten it’s better to cite the source.I found this site useful http://www.copyrightsearch.org to ensure that even by mistake we are not using other’s content, especially in the field of arts,music,videos …

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By: Kanti

Kanti — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:02:59 +0000

I always thought that the GPL read like “you made the promise to distribute derivative work under the same conditions”.
The following line does point me to the correct interpretation.
“Because the GPL does not require any promises in return from licensees, it does not need contract enforcement in order to work.”

Thanks for pointing this out.

By: Praveen A

Praveen A — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:43:59 +0000

Kanti, Thanks for the writeup, but you got it wrong here. Copyright license is a unilateral permission from the copyright holder. But proprietary companies want more than what copyright gives and they try to enter into contract restricting you even more than what copyright alone does. All Free Software licenses are pure copyright licenses, especially GPL. You don’t even have to agree to GPL to use it. But when you distribute GPLed code all you have (and need) is GPL, so at that point only you need to worry about the conditions of GPL. See http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ for more discussions.

By: Kanti

Kanti — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:24:28 +0000

Hi Praveen,

The writeup is nice.Let me add something from my side as well.

When the copyright holder grants you permission to do something with his work it falls under the category of a contract.Contract per se has its own set of regulations.
When you sign/agree on an EULA for a software you are entering into a contract with the copyright holder.
Most software under GNU/Linux systems is under the GPL or other form of Free Software licenses.The copyright holder here grants you the license to modify and redistribute the software and as long as you are in that contract (using the software and abiding by the terms).
Hope this helps clear a few more points.

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