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I agree with another answer that a pseudonymous work is covered under copyright equally as an anonymous work. … These two features in tandem ensure there is no copyright difficulty for others using your work. …

Copyright only applies to creative expression, not ideas. … If you have looked at a work, and the copyright holder of that work accuses you of infringement, then you are back to proving that your work is sufficiently dissimilar to not form a derivative under copyright …

Software without restriction, including [...] the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software [...] subject to the following conditions: The above copyright … Since slashtutorial.com does indeed include the copyright notice and license text (when you click on the "License" footer link), it may therefore "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense …

there are no copyright rules telling them they can't. … Since the loss of copyright means the loss of ability to impose restrictions via licensing, all of these permissions naturally exist in the absence of copyright. …

probably does hold the copyright (as much as they haven't been dissolved) to most of SQLite. … On the other hand, however, they appear to accept outside contributions, so they likely do not have copyright for those contributions, but instead rely on the dissolution of copyright for those submissions …

Each file that uses my code should include my copyright notice, so the people know who the original author was. … If a file includes work from both you and from me, it should have copyright notices for each of us. …

In that second case, "the work" broadly does include a copyright notice, so your distribution of some part of that work ought to include the work's copyright notice. … you could add a copyright notice for them out of courtesy. …

Generally, I would expect that a program that manipulates audio is a separate work, under copyright law, from any sample audio files that are supplied to be used optionally as input to that program. … If you expect to include sample output as well, you should also avoid NoDerivs (ND) terms, if your program creates a derivative under copyright law (note that simply changing the file format is allowed …

Copyright notices are virtually meaningless except for a very small benefit in certain niche procedural concerns in the United States, and even then a start-year only is sufficient to qualify. … In view of those facts, and that there is little reason to include a copyright notice other than your name anyway, you may as well omit your "now". …

You must follow requirements regarding license/copyright notices and permitting specific downstream use, but whether distribution is done for pay or free of charge does not matter. …

I am not aware of any case law indicating where copyright draws the line for de minimis use in any jurisdiction, though. … In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright. …

What this FAQ item says is essentially: if you submit contributions to the GNU project, they will not use them unless you first assign copyright to the FSF. … You are free to make modifications to GNU code and retain copyright on your modifications, but do not expect them to be accepted back into mainline GNU code. …

This is directly addressed in the GPL FAQ item, "Is it enough just to put a copy of the GNU GPL in my repository?" Just putting a copy of the GNU GPL in a file in your repository does not explicitly …

If you want to disallow modifications, you certainly want to use a NoDerivs license. In general, CC BY-SA is just as permissive as plain CC BY-SA, with the exception that downstream changes must rema …

If the sound is available from the copyright holder under a free or open source license (likely a Creative Commons license, for a sound file), or if the work is in the public domain (e.g., copyright on … Otherwise: because the sounds are covered by copyright, using them without a license from the copyright holder would be a copyright violation. Doing so makes you liable for copyright infringement. …