Il 20/11/2012 10:59, malc ha scritto: >>>> > >> >>>> > >> "Public domain" is not a valid copyright header/license grant. >>> > > >>> > > Sez who? >> > > Sez who was asked in response to "Is not a valid copyright/license grant." >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_the_public_domain ===== Under copyright law, most authors own the rights to limit use of their works. However, not all works fit this description. Exceptions include works in the public domain, which are old enough that either their author is long dead or it was created during a time when copyright was not assigned automatically. Some works created by the government or in other countries are also in the public domain. Sometimes people wish for a piece of their own work to be freely available to everyone to use with no strings attached, and put the work in the public domain. This isn't very hard to do — the copyright holder merely has to make a statement that they release all rights to the work. Once this irrevocable act is complete they no longer have any power over how the work is used since it is then owned by the public as a whole. It is controversial, however, whether it is possible for a copyright holder to truly abandon the copyright of their work. [...] It is certainly true that under some jurisdictions, it is impossible to release moral rights. For example the German Copyright Law (Urheberrechtsgesetz) prevents the transferability of copyrights in §29 UrhG so that an abdication isn't possible as well, though that is not the case in the United States. [...] Some scholars of copyright law, including Lawrence Lessig, agree that it is difficult to put works in the public domain, but not impossible. The Creative Commons website, for example, released a copyright waiver in 2009 called CC0. It is important to maintain that this is a copyright waiver and not a public domain release. ===== >> FSF says > > And what it says about CC0 or whatnot is utterly irrelevent. Surely their lawyers are better at copyright law than malc. Besides, perhaps commit b04df2a (wavcapture: Use stdio instead of QEMUFile, 2011-09-20) was not released in the public domain. Please stop playing FUD-lawyer. Paolo