Reinier Lamers <[email protected]> added the comment: Hi Eric,
Op zaterdag 07 augustus 2010 11:46 schreef Eric Kow: > New submission from Eric Kow <[email protected]>: > Just a quick question for you. Is it OK if we change the EXAMPLE.sh template > to just "Public domain" instead of the BSD3 boilerplate? > > I hope it's not some discussion we've already had that I'm just being too lazy > to search for. :-( AFAIK, we had it. The outcome was that a BSD license is better than putting it in the public domain because putting something in the public domain is legally murky. Googling stuff, looking at http://blog.mises.org/9240/copyright-is-very- sticky/ or http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/no-rights-reserved.html, it seems that many copyright laws do not give you a way to give up the copyright that you got automatically. The Creative Commons Zero license (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) is a license that attempts to do the same as putting something in the public domain, but portably across jurisdictions. It looks a LOT more complicated than the BSD license. Reinier ---------- nosy: +tux_rocker __________________________________ Darcs bug tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/patch331> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
