On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:53:53PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > >First of all, there is *no* way to relinquish ownership of copyrights > >before > >the expiration date 90+ years into the future. All you can do is create a > >contract/license for your users. > > Sources?
You might start with these.. Is public domain software open-source? http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9881858-39.html Why the Public Domain Isn't a License http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225 > You might read up on <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain>. There > are several cases that have made rulings concerning public domain, that > would place widely distributed software, such as SQLite under the public > domain. I'm not sure where on that Wikipedia page you are extrapolating this from. I see quite the opposite.... "Freely obtained does not mean free to republish These factors have reinforced the false notion that "freely obtained" means "public domain." One could argue that the Internet is a publicly available domain, not licensed or controlled by any individual, company, or government; therefore, everything on the Internet is public domain. This specious argument ignores the fact that licensing rights are not dependent on the means of distribution or consumer acquisition. (If someone gives a person stolen merchandise, it is still stolen, even if the receiving party was not aware of it.)" Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
