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On 6/2/2011 8:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<5ebf790e-1d47-409f-9b00-
> dc2a890b5bcf@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, Paul Cager wrote:
>
>> On Jun 2, 1:08 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<l...@geek-
>> central.gen.new_zealand>  wrote:
>>
>>> In message
>>> <5b0642c5-0634-4b8b-98fc-e9bfcbba1...@b42g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Paul
>>>
>>> Cager wrote:
>>>> On Jun 2, 11:42 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<l...@geek-
>>>> central.gen.new_zealand>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>> In message
>>>>> <9b584a36-f160-4e01-8e2f-ca3f83f17...@x10g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>> Paul
>>>
>>>>> Cager wrote:
>>>>>> It looks to be the standard 3-clause BSD license to me - that's a
>>>>>> good thing, isn't it?
>>>
>>>>> It would if the code were worth copyrighting.
>>>
>>>> You seem to misunderstand the difference between copyright and a
>>>> license.
>>>
>>> What is the licence for?
>>
>> The license grants us permission to use the code. Without a license we
>> could be breaching copyright by redistributing it.
>
> You mean, the way you could be “breaching copyright” by “redistributing”
> your USENET posting containing quotations of my words?

possibly, except that the nature of Usenet itself is itself for public 
communicaton and conversation, and so it would be a little harder to 
make the case that someone was breaching copyright simply by using the 
medium for its intended purpose...

granted, maybe to be really "proper" in a legal sense, Usenet posters 
would have to agree to a legal agreement to effectively waive personal 
copyright ownership over the messages they post on Usenet, with some 
additional clauses/special cases to deal with all the edge cases, such 
as when posting a message containing content from a 3rd party, ...