Best way to protect my new commercial software.

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Jan Claeys <usenet at janc.be> (JC) wrote:

>JC> Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +0000, schreef Grant Edwards:
>>> Uh what?  I don't know what country you're in, but in the US, it doesn't
>>> take any time at all to copyright something.  The mere act of writing
>>> something copyrights it.  I thought it was the same in Europe as well.

>JC> No, it's only copyrighted when you _publish_ it.

Not here in the Netherlands. It is `the exclusive right of the maker of a
work to publish or copy the work' (loose translation of the introduction of
the law). Otherwise someone else could publish it if he got hold of it in
some legitimate way.
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