RE: copyright

2003-02-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tim Whatever you write is automatically copyrighted. In other words, someone can't just freely copy what someone else has written and claim it is their own (at least in the last dozen years). A good short resource is: http://www.ott.caltech.edu/security/copyright_tutorial_Basic.htm Now, as we

Re: copyright

2003-02-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Dave, I'm not saying that what they did is OK. But I don't see scripts posted on the internet as IP, plain and simple. You referenced my script; I posted it there purposely for people to download and use. On my website, I request downloaders to provide attribution by keeping my name in the scr

Re: copyright

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Tim, A few thoughts, >It's a script - Oracle RDBMS is a bunch of scripts >It was posted on the internet - Oracle is available on the internet Does this mean I can download Oracle, place it on my website legally, call it notoracle and sell it? Or I found t