On Dec 22, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Tue Dec 22 19:34:42 2009, Kurt Zeilenga wrote: >> On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:57 AM, David Ammouial wrote: >> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 09:55:57 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> >>> So, you change the license without asking all the content authors out >> >>> there? ;-) >> >> >> >> It was in the public domain. They didn't have any rights. ;-) >> > >> > Do you mean it's possible to take a public-domain work and re-license it >> > according to your will? >> No. >> But you can incorporate PD material in licensed work without restriction. >> While the combined work might well be subject to other licenses, a work once >> placed in the public domain is always forever in the public domain. That >> is, you can (at least in theory) extract the public domain work from the >> combined work and use it without restriction. Of course, in practice, >> extracting such works from a combined work can be quite difficult. > > Only, of course, in jurisdictions where PD exists as a concept.
In practice, matters not. -- Kurt _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
