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Copyrights

This is a summary of the summary of the copyright discussion held during the original formation of The MOST. It seems that something everyone can live with happily is putting all the source code for the lessons into the public domain. We will not put the lesson plans themselves in the public domain.

"Public Domain" status for the source code provides the following benefits:

• Enables the code to be distributed far and wide by anyone;
• Allows unrestricted use of the code in commercial/shareware applications;
• Pre-empts any copyright problems that may otherwise arise if someone suddenly "develops a bad attitude". If the code people write for the MOST isn't public domain, then people who suddenly decide to adopt a bad attitude could withdraw permission for the rest of us to use their code, thus disrupting classes in progress.

The actual implementation of Public Domain is fairly easy: it requires the author(s) to put a notice on the code/page saying something similar to "This code is granted to the public domain by <first name surname>."

Where we use materials produced independently by someone other than explicitly for The MOST, we recognize that they maintain all rights to those materials.

More about copyright can be found at http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html

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