Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual instance where some code released as "public domain" caused trouble for citizens (from whatever country) who copied it?
2015-12-23 19:51 GMT-02:00 Marcel Rodrigues <marcel...@gmail.com>: > Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual instance where some code > released as "public domain" caused trouble for citizens (from whatever > country) who copied it? > > 2015-12-23 19:13 GMT-02:00 Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se>: >> >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:03:11 +0000 >> mpu <quen...@c9x.me> wrote: >> >> > quen...@c9x.me (mpu) wrote: >> > > Hi folks, >> > > >> > > I wrote some tools to design bitmap fonts. Maybe you'll >> > > be interested. >> > > >> > > http://github.com/mpu/fnt/ >> > >> > I feel bad that this whole discussion ended up being about >> > legal matters. Because some people seem unable to simply >> > copy-paste 200 lines of code when it does not have a >> > license, I put one in the Github repo. >> >> You should not feel bad about that. The silence otherwise >> and combined with this discussion probably indicates that >> we are interested, at least I am, and have not technical >> complaints. >> >> > >> > I think I'm starting to understand __20h__'s "copy me if >> > you can", maybe it should be "copy me if you dare". >> >> "copy me if you can" is an informal license, which is >> actually worse then public domain. Best just the have a >> script that creates a new project and automatically >> puts the MIT license on it. Perhaps call it gitinit. >> >> > >> > To be honest I feel a bit stupid putting a license on four >> > glorified while loops. I'm not sure what is the limit for >> > requiring a license, do we need to license awk one-liners >> > when we paste them on IRC? If not, what was the problem >> > with my repository. The four files provided as source are >> > really almost one-liners. >> >> A safe but is that anything more than hello world (GNU's >> implementation should be considered much more) is probably >> enough for a license. It is not only the triviality that >> acyually needs to be considered, it is the originality too. >> >> > >> > I wonder if the people who just complained about (lack of) >> > licensing are really concerned about it or are just of the >> > same kind of people that find it unacceptable to write >> > (x - 'a') in C. >> >> What is wrong with (x - 'a')? In what context. But I think >> people care about the licensing because it would really >> suck to have to detail with copyright infringement issues >> >> > >> > Hopefully we can now talk about what I submitted. >> >> It looks great! >> >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > -- mpu >> > >> >