JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Public domain is clearly defined in copyright law, and that should be > so in any country that has any kind of copyright law.
I fear there are a couple of countries that didn't obey your "should". > Copyright only > extends to a certain period of time after which it does not exist > anymore. That idea probably exists everywhere, but you can't say "treat this file as if I died 70 years ago" in the EU, AFAIK. And all that doesn't answer my question: Whether it's debian-legal's consensus that "This file is in the public domain" grants us enough rights to distribute it in main, or non-free, or not at all. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)