Aminet Copyright Upload Dilemma

[Piru]

@koaftder

Spend less time playing lawyer, and more time writing code.

Same to you, sir.

All material you create (released or not) remain copyrighted, unless if you explicitly place them in public domain. "Released to public" doesn't automagically mean "public domain".

If the license is (legally) unclear or vague, the copyright is the default, and you can't redistribute. In such cases the only (legally solid) way is to try contact the original author somehow and ask for permission (google can do wonders here).

This might seem anal, but this is how it works.

[Piru]

@koaftder

have you ever run across a project that was distributed publicly with a license that forbid modifying and sharing the modified source with third parties in a non-commercial setting

That is not necessary since it is the default due to copyright anyway. The license must explicitly specify the limits of distribution by granting the rights.

Thus any project that includes source and doesn't include any clear license is in fact such project.

[Piru]

@Roj

Weird Al does it all the time

It should be noted that he asks for permission, and that parody have some protection, too.

Yet, sometimes that hasn't been enough: http://blog.mises.org/archives/005371.asp