Hello, I run Debian and I recently wrote a small Python program. However, while I do maintain it, I have placed it in the public domain. I read the Debian policy manual. After asking for more information about licensing issues and public domain packages on the IRC channel, I was told alternately that I would need a license and I should ask on the Debian legal mailing list. I then also looked in the Debian New Maintainer's guide, which states "program must have a license, if possible free as according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines."
Is it acceptable to maintain a public domain package or should I look at something such as Creative Commons Public Domain? http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ Thank you for your time, Rob Crowther