Re: [ILUG-BOM] twitter web app in php

On Thursday 01 July 2010 18:45:28 Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:

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no - according to Indian law, one has to explicitly throw the work into public domain. At present he has the copyright to the application, and since he has not licensed it and given permission for people to download, use and modify it, anyone doing so is breaking the law.

Nopes, since he has put the details of it on a public mailing list that is searchable on google, etc, he has implicitly given permission to download and use it, not ofcourse to modify it. He still owns the copyright to the code.

the prosecution would argue that he has only asked people to preview/comment on the app and the permission to download was only for this limited purpose.