@cab21: Agreed. This is why I do not go in for Richard Stallman’s idea of “free software”. He basically believes that software developers do have a duty to give away their “Original Recipe”, aka their source-code. The net effect of the GNU license is to make free software used less than it otherwise would be as commercial software companies who are not about to release their source code forego the GNU software in favor of developing their own or purchasing a commercial solution.
Your right: To copy anything in the public domain
Your other right: To put nothing in the public domain you choose not to
The logical conclusion of your rights: That you cannot publish anything you also want to keep secret. This is by definition, so it’s embarrassing to have to explain it but modern IP law wants to do the impossible: create public secrets.
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