Re: Design principles and ethics

[Bas Wijnen]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:54:30PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it is impossible to have copyright on a work on public
> domain. Maybe on the part that is added to it, but not on it itself.

That is correct, but they aren't obliged to actually tell which parts are the
things they have copyright on.  So the result (Ok, they need to make some
changes, but they can be really minor) is that my work is distributed by them,
and the people who receive it don't know which parts are actually copyrighted,
and will therefore assume that the whole work is.

So indeed, technically they cannot "take" my work and "protect" it with their
copyright.  But for all practical means they can.

Thanks,
Bas

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