Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:57:53AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > Yes I have heard about this. Does that mean public domain is not a > > really valid concept in such countries? (I realize this is a legal > > quesiton and is probably off-topic on debian-i18n.) > > Yes. There is no public domain in Europe. [...]
Hello debian-i18n, this is England calling! As I understand it, we have a public domain (so the above "there is no public domain in Europe" is not true, same as the cannot-assign-copyright is not true in all Europe), but there is no tried-and-tested current way to put a work into the public domain (in the copyright sense) - we have to wait for copyright to expire, so much of what else was written is true. > But I guess this thread rather belongs to debian-legal. If you ask debian-legal, please ask specific questions, such as which packages are involved and where the various parties live, as the answers on this do vary... Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
