Re: [Spark] Some Linux tools

[Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote:

>>>Free licence: Take it at your own risk, modify it, keep the modifications
>>>secret, sell them, ignore to mention me, ...
>> I think the best way to state that license is "Public Domain".
> It might be, if Lutz was located in USA, but in EU there is legally no 
> such thing as "public domain".

Call it BSD-license. It's like "take it and do what you want with it".
Microsoft did so with the IP-stack in Windows (I guess it's from 4.4BSD)

The GPL which is mainly used in GNU-environments (FSF, Linux and its
userland) is more restrictive.

At least the copyright in Germany is always assigned to the author,
it cannot be given away. Of course there are parts of your rights
you may sell (or not), but this is more like "licensing a product",
to permit use or copying, but the owner is forever the author.

Some years (approx. 80) after the author's dead the rights will expire
and the product/invention becomes a public good. This question always
raises when performing music. For actual music you have to pay a fee
to GEMA, but if the componist is long enough buried five feet under
sealevel then public presentation of his songs is legal without payment.


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