HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1) (ZDNet)

HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1) (ZDNet)

Hmm, the author doesn't seem to know all that much about copyright...
In the US at least, copyright is automatic, and a statement like "Copyright the code (paste copyright notices all over it)" is meaningless. Pretty much any written expression, be it code, or a post like this one, is copyrighted by the author, if there is a copyright notice on it or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain