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  <title>Who Owns Open Source Code</title>
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    <td align="left"><h2>Who Owns Open Source Code</h2></td>
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  When software is released without a license it is released into the
  public domain.  Public Domain software has the following
  liabilities:

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    <li>The first person to license the software is the owner.</li>

    <li>If someone else takes your software they can restrict your use
        of your own code.</li>

    <li>They can sell your code and not give you a penny</li>

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  Therefore it is important to license your code.  If you license your
  code under an Open Source license:

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    <li>You are designated "owner" of your code</li>
  
    <li>No one can restrict your rights to use your own code</li>

    <li>You can release later versions of the same code under new
        licenses</li>

    <li>You can release the same version under other non-open licenses
        (used in the dual licensing business model)</li>

    <li>You can sell your software and charge whatever you like</li>

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  If you work on an Open Source project and you make alterations to a
  codebase you have the following rights:

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    <li>Are owner of the altered code</li>

    <li>Depending on the OSS license of the original code you may be
        able to license your code in whatever way you want</li>

    <li>You can distribute the code to whomever you want, and charge
        whatever you want for the altered code</li>

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