On Dec 14, 9:08 am, farsheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me be clear for you: there are someone in my company who love to > use my software in other companies that she works there also. and > because it is an inhouse tool, my CEO wanted me to protect it from > stealing. and really we havn't time to copyright it.
I don't think it's particularly productive to continue this discussion, given that you're obviously in a situation where you don't have a great deal of flexibility, but I think you and/or your CEO might benefit from listening to the PyCon 2007 talk "The Absolute Minimum an Open Source Developer Must Know About Intellectual Property" [1]. The speaker misrepresents the FSF somewhat in stating that they don't believe in property (or some similar phrasing - I don't recall the exact choice of words), but aside from this the talk is rather well delivered, with the basic definitions of the different legal instruments described in an approachable fashion. > so I want to secure my software from some people who love to steal and use it. It sounds like your CEO has issues with the people he/she employs, first and foremost. Paul [1] Slides available here: http://us.pycon.org/zope/talks/2007/sat/track4/053/talkDetails2 Audio available from here: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2007/11/pycon-2007-podcast.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list