Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:

> there are totally confused about oss. they do not seem to understand
> that oss is a form of copyright and licensed work. their understanding
> that oss will dilute malaysia's stand on intellectual property. we need

many do not realise that a copyright and a license are two different
animals. what confuses them is that i hold copyright, but license my work
under a free to use/distribute license. they confuse this action with also
giving away copyright. i once had a very "interesting" argument with a
supposedly IP lawyer for a large quasi-government agency on this very
issue. oddly, all the non-legal people in the room got it, but she didnt.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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