Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: pure C90 environment Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 13:24:04 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87eerfsmfv.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <005caece-e5a1-4376-8e05-7ed7b02afe4a@googlegroups.com> <72add221-4f32-43f2-905f-0e52db2aa2f5@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="34d20b0eae8be82a542dc80de7b5ecc7"; logging-data="30260"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18WllspZkx6QOI5DbsfhkDt" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSeYg2JclqKDA/3nyJIMoUQmvuQ= sha1:KCbk4jK2yifcOK9917J2fjBDWOc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:152403 David Brown writes: [...] > You could well be both right and wrong here. You could be right that > only the creator has a valid claim to the copyright even after having > discarded it with a "public domain" notice. But it is naïve to think > that something could only be accepted as "valid" by a court in cases > where it truly /is/ valid. For civil court cases, courts are supposed > to rule on the "preponderance of evidence" - they rule based on what > seems most likely. The scope for getting this wrong is, I think, much > greater when someone has said "do what you want with this code" > compared to code that has a clear copyright message and license. By that argument, it's equally likely that someone could falsely claim ownership of something for which you have a valid copyright. In my uninformed opinion, it's not worth worrying about -- and this isn't the place to discuss it. There are forums that discuss intellectual property. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */