Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
silvioprog schrieb:
So, the components of palette "Samples" also have copyright? I don't
saw copyright on top of the unit, then I copied it.
Current (international) copyright requires that an *author* is
identified with every unit/document, or for all parts of a project. This
author can give permission for the use of the unit.
But at the same time, a collection can be copyrighted even if the
constituent parts can't be by virtue of being PD or purely factual. So
if, as an example, a proprietary development tool took PD example code
and added a project file or makefile, they would have a defensible
copyright applicable to the overall assemblage even if what they'd added
wasn't marked.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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