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Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?



On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Guido Trentalancia
<iz6rdb@trentalancia.com> wrote:

> I'll just make an hypotesis. The origin is not very important as long as
> the original author doesn't care about claiming it. Being GNU GPL (this
> is clearly stated in COPYRIGHT), there is no warranty in any case. If
> there is no warranty, then as long as no-one is claiming the copyright,
> it shouldn't matter (for example, "orphan package").

Copyright is automatic, it doesn't matter if you claim it or not, your
works are still copyrighted.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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