> Under US copyright law, which is the law under which most free software programs have historically been first published, They are published with a worldwide

> Under US copyright law, which is the law under which most free software programs have historically been first published, They are published with a worldwide public licence; I'm not even sure how one can publish something such as that under any specific law. One drafts a public licence, and different parts of it are enforceable to different degrees in different jurisdictions. It is of course quite possible for the licence to be gnostic of the country of the acceptee, and apply differing provisions in different cases, but I would feel such would strongly go against F.S.F. philosophies.