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Originally Posted by Solicitous
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.
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I'm going in exactly the opposite direction, thanks to this thread. The intention was always to share freely and give the maximum amount of freedom to others. I see now that the only way I can satisfy this need within myself is to release into the Public Domain and without authorial tags (possibly under anonymous, but that's as yet to be determined).