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Copyrights, copyright texts, defines who has rights to (e.g.) copy, distribute,
perform or display work in public, sell or assign rights to others, transmit
or display by radio or video, reuse and modify works based on it. See copyrights -
wikipedia article for more.
One example:
Creative Commons Attribution License
To ensure the legal reusability of content, Connexions requires authors to license materials they publish under the Creative Commons Attribution License [1] (presently, version 2.0). Under this license, the author retains the right to be credited (attributed) wherever the content is reused. The author grants others the right to copy, distribute, and display the work, and to derive works based on it, as long as the author is credited. (From wikipedia article on Connexions.)
Copyright Continuum
Scale of strengths of rights, from unlimited to 'full restrictions':
| How restrictive: | No copyright No restrictions |
<- (less restrictive) copyrights (more restrictive) -> | Most restrictive | ||
| Terminology | Public Domain | non-protective licenses |
protective licenses |
proprietary licenses |
trade secrets, military secrets, ... |
| E.g. license, technology | BSD, LGPL, GPL | MS Shared Source | MS EULA | DVD CSS | |
| Open/Closed Source?[1] | Open Source | Closed Source | |||
[1] If viewed as open- or closed- source by Free Software Foundation (fsf.org, licensing/licenses) and Open Source Initiative (OSI, opensource.org). Note that there are many companies that claims open source but restricts the use. This is NOT open source by the general definition accepted by (e.g.) FSF and OSI.
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