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OIN expands its coverage

OIN expands its coverage

Posted Mar 15, 2012 11:28 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: OIN expands its coverage by armijn
Parent article: OIN expands its coverage

Yes, that would be akin to a MIT license or a public domain Copyright disclaimer: it allows you to use the information without limits.

A Copyleft style hack would use the patent system to enforce the desired behavior. The problem being that patents are not like Copyrights, that are automatically granted...


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