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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The only way you can protect copyright in a digital age is to uninvent the digital and retard all progress made to this point. If anything, copyright is becoming less and less important to the wider culture. Not only do I assume that there won't be a way to protect copyright, I'll actively work towards solutions that break said protections at every level.
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I actually think copyright is becoming more and more important. With the huge information age that we're experiencing, copyright not only protects the original authors, but provides a level of credibility to the source.
Going back to your initial post (and reading subsequent) I do think that you need to licence your works. Given you want to contribute it freely to the world to do with as they please, well I'm gathering that you'd like them to do with it as they please provided they also keep it open ie: can sell and make money, can modify but can't refrain others from taking the work and doing the same.
That said I don't think the BSD licence in the one for you, my understanding is the BSD licence requires you to acknowledge original contributors, yet are not forced to provide source code with the binary (essentially allowing someone to close it up). I'm finding it a little hard to put that in the context of text.