On Nov 5, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Ronan Paixão wrote: > Em Qua, 2008-11-05 às 13:23 -0400, David Joyner escreveu: >> Should we consider creating our own "Sage documentation license"? >> As was pointed out, "public domain" not only doesn't exist in some >> countries, it also isn't a license technically speaking. > > Just now I noticed on the CC page that in Brazil releasing > something in > the public domain won't produce the wanted legal consequences.
:( Why does giving things away have to be more complicated than not? > I tried to find a law describing that, but in what I found there > were only > references about getting in the public domain after the author's > death. > I've written to the local CC e-mail to see what's that about and to > propose that CC create a new license with the same effects of the > public > domain (no attribution needed). Let's see what comes out. I believe there used to be such a license, and its use was so low that they discontinued it. However, I wonder if having the attribution in, e.g., the .tex source would be sufficient. This would probably be a good happy medium. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
