To pick another minor nit (while I'm at it :-)

The only requirement needed to have the copyright on a work is to create it.

You need to create and record it. An idea you have created in your head is not copyrighted, nor I think is an idea you have described verbally to another person (unless you tape that conversation). Recording the creative work on a medium gives you the copyright on the recording (painting/soundclip/program). This is important, because confusion often arises on whether you can copyright the idea of your creation. You can't, you can only copyright the manifestation of that idea.

The OpenBSD project uses this fact creatively by using their copyright on the CD image of their official release and disallowing free redistribution of said image. Thus, while you're free to install, use and change OpenBSD in almost any way, you cannot get an official CD image without buying it from them.


Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan

In reply to Re^12: Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by tirwhan
in thread Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by Moron

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