On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bruce Guthrie wrote:
> Ever hear of copy rights?
Releasing a design or product openly doesn't mean you lose your copyright,
so long as you take the effort to apropriately protect those rights.
There are several popular (legally-binding) licenses publically available.
There's also the whole issue behind "fair use" that the public is
afforded as well.
> making more of these little gems, understand time is money, money is
> power and if you don't have the money you have no power. Okay so that is
This is nonsense.
Purchases of nSync will likely fulfill John's promise of opensourcing the
software. Though I don't know for certain if he copyrighted his work yet,
he'll be able to retain all his rights, have made a profit during the
software's release, and continue to "have power" over his product by law.
He could continue to maintain the product for other sources of income as
well. The only difference here is that John's using a license that allows
others to have more control of his product than other licenses.
I had intended the original message to PCBMan to be private, but
accidentally replied to the list. It was a simple 'yes' or 'no' question
and remains as such at his discretion. Nevertheless, this is the type of
situation where a question like this should be asked.
-Jeff
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