>>>>> Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (JC) wrote: >JC> Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +0000, schreef Grant Edwards: >>> Uh what? I don't know what country you're in, but in the US, it doesn't >>> take any time at all to copyright something. The mere act of writing >>> something copyrights it. I thought it was the same in Europe as well.
>JC> No, it's only copyrighted when you _publish_ it. Not here in the Netherlands. It is `the exclusive right of the maker of a work to publish or copy the work' (loose translation of the introduction of the law). Otherwise someone else could publish it if he got hold of it in some legitimate way. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list