Ah. Well, people claim all sorts of things. Doesn't make them true.

A lot of people will just put a copyright notice on the bottom of every page
"just incase" or because they say it keeps some corporation from
copyrighting it and then claiming that the original site isn't allowed to
publish it. All of that is rubbish.

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Peter L. Peres
> Sent: 2004 Oct 16, Sat 11:40
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [PIC] [ADMIN] [JAMES] piclist liberally quoted 
> all over the web
> Importance: Low
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> 
> > How could a public mailing list be any other way? You post it, it 
> > becomes public as in public domain. Period. I'm always amazed that 
> > this confuses people.
> 
> What confuses me is someone claiming rights to it in despite 
> of this, not what I released. See my other message.
> 
> > If you want it GPL'd then release it with a GPL license on 
> a web site 
> > (like
> > PICList.com) and point to it from the list.
> >
> > If you want it copyrighted, call a lawyer.
> 
> Peter
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