(C) yyyy Joerg Schilling (was: Re: your mail) (fwd)

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Jan 26 00:16:07 UTC 2002


> You see the (c)? That's *your* legal protection against people stealing
> your code. The GPL only grants people extra rights, which they wouldn't
> have if only the (c) was there.

Remember, folks, in many places (UK included) a c in brackets has no weight
in law.  You must either use the real circled c copyright sign, or write the
word "Copyright" in full.

(NB IANAL and this is from my training in printed work...)
-- 
MJR



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