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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: Proposal: Constant Tables
From:       Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz () interfree ! it>
Date:       2011-08-13 21:01:29
Message-ID: 4E46E629.6000901 () interfree ! it
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On 13/08/2011 22.14, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 08:53:01PM +0200, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
>> On 13/08/2011 20.33, Rob Kendrick wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 06:28:38PM +0200, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
>>>> On 13/08/2011 15.36, Lars Doelle wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- ------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> -- [ToData.lua]
>>>>> -- Copyright (c) 2011 Lars Dölle<lars.doelle@on-line.de>
>>>>> -- ------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Please, avoid posting copyrighted material, even if the copyright is
>>>> yours. It is very bad netiquette.
>>>
>>> Everything posted to this list is copyrighted, explicitly labeled or
>>> otherwise.
>>
>> Really? This comes new to me! You mean that some snippets could be,
>> say, GPLed and could have been fed to the community without a
>> warning?
>
> All created works are automatically protected by copyright, and that
> copyright is automatically assigned to its creator.  If you hold
> something for which its rights are owned by somebody else and you have
> not been given an explicit licence or permission to things with it, you
> have no rights to do anything with it.  This is basic copyright law.
> And it holds here: if somebody pastes some code into a mail, you have no
> rights to use it unless the the copyright holder says you do.
>
>> What is the implicit license if someone doesn't declare one then?
>
> The implicit licence if one is not made explicit is that you have no
> rights over the material.
>
>>> By default, you have no rights to do anything what-so-ever with material
>>> sent to you.
>> Sorry, but this is really bad news. So if I asked for help and
>> someone sent me on this list a snippet to solve the problem then my
>> code could have been "infected" with unknown licensing term?!?
>
> No, because unless they told you how you may use it, you have no rights
> to anyway.  And as such, you won't have used it and become exposed.
>
> This is now way off-topic, though :)
Yes, I do fear so :-)

Thank you for the clear explanations!

>
> B.
>
>
>

-- Lorenzo



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