Windows Media Player user license extensions

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:50:36 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 lists@notatla.demon.co.uk wrote:

>If I write some software myself where do I obtain the license before
>I can use or copy it ?
From the copyright owner :)

>Unlicensed software is fine right up to the
>moment the author-distributor attaches conditions to it, if ever.

Copyright exists without specific notice nor registration. Without a
limited assignment of these rights, by way of a license, you breach
copyright law by using the software.


Cheers,

Phil