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Suppose I've found a “text” somewhere in open access (say, on public network share). I have no means to contact the author, I even don't know who is the author.
What can I legally do with such “text”?
Update: I am not going to publish that “text”, but rather learn from it myself.
Update: So, if I ever see an anonymous code, article, whatever, shouldn't I even open it, because otherwise I'd copy its contents to my brain?
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The Unlicense. A license with no conditions whatsoever which dedicates works to the public domain. Unlicensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
In January 2012, when discussed on OSI 's license-review mailing list, the Unlicense was brushed off as a crayon license. A request for legacy approval was filed in March 2020, which led to a formal approval in June 2020. The license terms of the Unlicense is as follows: This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
An ‘ unlicensed medicine ’ is one without a marketing authorisation for the UK. It could, for example, be a medicine that is licensed as a medicine abroad (e.g. ajmaline), or it could be a nutritional supplement (e.g. some vitamin preparations).
UNLICENSED is probably what you want: there is no license to use that software outside the copyright owner. That's what proprietary often means. Otherwise, if you are licensing it to others, put the terms in a file, and SEE LICENSE IN file. At least that's my understanding.
IANAL: There is no license. The original author (whoever it may be) retains copyright and all the rights associated with it, and has not granted any explicit license to anyone to do anything with their work. Please do check with an actual lawyer versed in copyright, though, since it seems like there should be a way to use the text in your particular circumstances and (s)he would likely know what that way is.
UPDATE: Copyright is chiefly concerned with (re)distribution; if you can read it, you're free to learn from it, although the DMCA places legal restrictions on what steps you can take to be able to read it, e.g., you aren't supposed to use DeCSS to read subtitles since that is a "circumvention of access control".
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