Re: Oct and Nov 2012

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Message-ID <CA+sc5mkBa+EmobTRG38jGp0Admsub7sgbfGRJ-+EOTXQMTDR=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 31/10/12 14:13, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>      At the time, I believe Eben also directed us to list each year to
>>>      which a copyright notice applies *individually*; apparently, year
>>>      ranges lack the legal standing of such a list, (but again, the UK
>>>      copyright service advice contradicts this).
>>
>> We've not assigned copyright until recently.  Therefore 2012 alone
>> works.  Remember Public Domain is the absence of copyright.
>
> That's not strictly correct.  It means that the author has elected to
> *waive* rights granted under copyright law; such waiver does not alter
> the status of the work itself as "copyrightable", at publication time.

I've inserted the removed author attribution.

-- 
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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