That's not true. If you have a signed piece of paper saying I wrote it in mm-dd-yyyy you are good to go. The same way patents work; prior art can be proven by writing your idea in an engineering notebook (you know, pen and paper!) and then signing it. Since those notebooks are usually in chronological order they are considered valid pieces of evidence.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:18:33PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: > That wouldn't work because the original author would be able to prove > he was the owner of the copyright. > Comrade RIngo Kamens > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:09:37PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: > > | My guess would be that the content is released into the public domain > > | since you can't sue because there is no proof that you are the > > | copyright holder. > > | Comrade RIngo Kamens > > > > Let me just steal some code somewhere, relicense it and release it as > > 'anonymous'. *poof* .. it's public domain because you can't sue ? > > > > That's a bit too easy... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > > > -- > >>++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > > http://www.weirdnet.nl/
