[Info-vax] Most popular application programming languages on VMS ?

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 6:31:53 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/10/2019 5:00 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> > On 1/10/2019 4:39 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> >> I was discussing with Rob that the documentation for that DLM feature
> >> And back to the question about "code donations", etc., such things
> >> get really complicated with licenses, ownership, patent protection,
> >> etc.  For example, if you send me something with a GPL license, I'll
> >> delete it.
> > 
> > Understood.
> > 
> >>  If you send me something, with copyright to you, I'll
> >> delete it.
> > 
> > Even if I grant you full and unfettered use of the code, including the 
> > right to remove copyright?
>  >
>  >> If you send me something with no copyright, I'll delete
>  >> it.
>  >
>  > Now, that one I just don't understand.  How about if I state that the
>  > code is a donation to VSI with no strings attached?  How about if I sell
>  > you the code for $1 ?  Or one cent?
> 
> Copyright does not disappear just because the
> copyright notice get removed.
> 
> You need to explicit grant him rights.
> 
> And if you pick your own  wording then it will be bad because
> he will need to pay a lawyer big bucks to review it.
> 
> If you use a recognized permissive open source license: Apache,
> BSD, MIT etc. then everybody should be happy.
> 
> Arne

^^ this ^^

Even if I get some email from somebody claiming to be you that grants me rights, that is not sufficient.  Your estate can easily dispute such an unproven email and file a civil suit that could go on forever.  

This isn't much different to posting photos online.  You retain copyright ownership even if you don't slap on some notice or overprint image.