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On Monday 11 October 2004 4:10 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
I'm also entirley entitled to not release it like that. You may disagree with that decision as you are entitled to do, but you can't tell me that the code I have written isn't mine.Authorship != ownership. Obviously your authorship is maintained, that's what copyright is for, but copyright does NOT give you rights over COPIES. That would be a role for the owner and it does not have an owner.
Let me clarify that. Copyright does not give you rights over legitimate copies. If I download a copy of a package from SourceForge, I only contravene copyright if I obliterate the original authorship of the files and pass them off as my own. (Licence issues apart). My act of downloading a copy does NOT entitle the author to change or modify the copy that is on my system. The copy does NOT belong to the author. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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