[Javascript] code licencing

[J Pointon]

May I suggest you look at *Open Source Licensing*

*Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law*

by Lawrence Rosen which can be viewed online at
http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

On 9 May 2011 02:34, J Pointon <jpointon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it not be possible to licence your code under one of the open source
> copyright protocols eg those under the Open Source Initiative (OSI) allowing
>  modification, redistribution, but not commercial use without having to pay
> the original author.. Such licenses usually have additional restrictions
> such as a requirement to preserve the name of the authors and a copyright
> statement within the code
>
>
> On 9 May 2011 02:27, Troy III Ajnej <trojani2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah, I figured...
>>
>> The reason I ask this, is a faint possibility
>> of a case when some pretty interesting code
>> you wrote, turns out to be quite usable and
>> very popular amongst javaScripters, while
>> your basic idea is to keep it free for all
>> use\r\s but never bothered to license it.
>>
>> Eventually there might come a day when someone
>> at knowledge that your code is not licensed and
>> seeing that it is gaining avid popularity, might
>> just get the idea to commercially license your
>> code on his name and put an end to its free
>> use.
>>
>> That's why I think, it'd be nice to have some
>> basic practical knowledge on these matters.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>               Troy III
>>      progressive art enterprise
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> > From: riegel at clearimageonline.com
>> > Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 22:24:41 -0400
>> > To: javascript at lists.evolt.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Javascript] code licencing
>> >
>> > None here :)
>> >
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