[cc-licenses] (c) 2005 All of humanity

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Mon Oct 10 05:41:27 EDT 2005


Alexander Genaud wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I do not believe public domain and a
> copyright to everyone are quite the same thing.

In practice they are, and "public domain" at least has precedent.


> Agreed. However, while I can redistribute a public domain work under
> my own copyright, I must retain the copyright of a work owned by
> everyone.

That's only half-true, and doesn't apply to the case you proposed. If 
you and I are both equal copyright holders of a work, I am free to do 
what I want with it and I don't have to put your name down.

> In other words, I believe, no one individual can release
> changes under closed terms if the recipient is also a copyright
> holder.

This is not true.

If you and I are both copyright holders over a work, and I make changes, 
I have the sole copyright over my changes. Period. I can give you 
expamples where this happens today (e.g. Sun's StarOffice, Codeweavers' 
CrossOverOffice, etc.)

If what you want is to ensure that changes remain open, you should use a 
license like the GPL or ShareAlike.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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