From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T04:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI With Ruby

Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2007, at 16:39, I. P. wrote:
>> EM> absolutely no need for attribution.
>> It's correct only for USA (and probably few other countries). In most
>> jurisdiction public domain works require attribution.
>
> Interesting. So in those jurisdictions a widely distributed anonymous 
> work wouldn't count as public domain?
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
> Games With Brains
> ----
> raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
>
>
>
To be honest, in the U.S. I would not consider anonymous works to be in 
the public domain unless there was some very visible and carefully 
worded statement that the work was in the public domain, such as seen 
here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/. The reason is 
that in the U.S. all "creative" works (including software) are 
automatically protected by copyright, even if the copyright holder is 
not known. This of course produces huge numbers of abandoned works that 
can't be used and is amazingly stupid, but it's the law.