Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Maybe because it makes the work something accessible to the public? As
opposed to "company private" or "classified" or whatever else you might want
to do to make a work a private matter?

The terminology is certainly confusing. Obviously, one always needs to
consult legal counsel to be sure, but with a newsgroup as international as
this and the subject of copyright and licensing coming up fairly often for
one reason or another, it would help to have a shared understanding of what
was meant when using certain terminology.

"Tower of Babbel", anyone?

MDC
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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>
> I was surprised (shouldn't have been, I guess) to find that our (UK)
> lawyers seem to place a different meaning on the phrase "public
> domain". They say we should not say "(c) XYZ plc 2002" on any document
> we are not intending to be used for publicity purposes because it
> "places the document in the public domain". I have no idea what this
> means to them, IANAL, but there certainly seems to be a difference
> between what these guys think and what most of us have come to
> understand by the phrase.
>
> This all struck me as so deeply depressing that I didn't chase it
> further (of course, that would have required a lot of work exploring
> the halls of Moria).