On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:46:36AM -0500, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:37 AM, anonymous <aim0s...@lavabit.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:04:37PM +0100, hiro wrote: > >> licenses are stupid > >> > > > > I agree. What should be done to place it into the public domain? > > Will adding of "/* Public Domain */" into every source file be enough? > > Some parts of the world (I think DE is one of them) don't recognize > the phrase "public domain" to mean anything in particular, so you have > to write what you mean it to say. Something like "This software is in > the public domain. That means that you can ..." > Here is a comment from SQLite 3 source code: ** The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of ** a legal notice, here is a blessing: ** ** May you do good and not evil. ** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. ** May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
expr.c from OpenBSD uses just /* Public Domain */ pdksh has file LEGAL with this: " pdksh is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY, either expressed or implied. The vast majority of the code that makes pdksh is in the public domain. " Here is what I have just found also: http://unlicense.org/. Probably this is a good instruction for placing software into the public domain.
