https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2884&p=36789#p36789
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Tormie
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 11:38 AM

Re: Licenses for our free stuff
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:mmmh:  :mmmh:  :mmmh: I think that a license without distribution/re-distribution is a copyright . I'm not expert about the matter and I've to read about it. 

As far as I know (but it's probably not exactly true) one has to pay for the copyrights (I don't know who or what), I mean, if you don't want that your product may be distributed or redistributed you have to protect it with a copyright and this copyright has to be bought, but, I repeat, probably I'm wrong.

This Creative Commons association basically protects the freebies from alteration, attribution, commercial use but not fro distribution/redistribution. However, when the freebie is distributed or redistributed one must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. In this way the author (we) can add in the readme the condition for redistribution (for example I can write that one can redistribute the work if you donate 10000$ to the Posette and Dork Preservation foundation (posetteforever)  :whistle:  :grin:  :uuh:  :oops: so that no one will do it  :snooty: ).

Reading your messages Now I'm thinking of a solution: Maybe we can leave things like they are now: the author can choose one of the 6 licenses or none, if he or she choose none the rights of the work is written in the readme on the care of the author. The authors at Posetteforever can use the creative commons license also an example to add in their readme because (probably) it's the right form to protect their work.

As I said, the right NOT to distribute the work could be effectively made by protecting the work with a copyright, so even if you write in the readme not to distribute it, this rule could not be effective if the work is not protected by a copyright. I'm thinking about music, as far as I know in order not to be copied a song have to be protected by a paid copyright. I could be wrong by I'll read some more documents about it on the net today.

With "distribute" I mean share the work without any alteration or the alteration specified by the author/licensor (as is) and with attribution