Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:04:19PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. I don't believe this to be accurate. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:04:19PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. I don't believe this to be accurate. Accurate or not, I doubt the author would sue anyone in one of those places for using the code. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:18:40AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Accurate or not, I doubt the author would sue anyone in one of those places for using the code. That doesn't matter. His heirs may. -- Glenn Maynard
Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. Perhaps you could get him to release the code under a very permissive license, such as the MIT/X11 license? If that's not acceptable, a public-domain declaration is, I think, good enough for Debian -- you should be perfectly clear packaging the code. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. Perhaps you could get him to release the code under a very permissive license, such as the MIT/X11 license? Having just read the license -- much easier if the text is included instead of linked -- it's clear this author has already considered that. If that's not acceptable, a public-domain declaration is, I think, good enough for Debian -- you should be perfectly clear packaging the code. It looks perfectly reasonable to distribute the PD parts of this package. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:44, Magnus Therning wrote: And the license can be found here: http://www.gnosis.cx/download/gnosis/doc/LICENSE Despite silly things like and in fact do anything you could do with content of your own creation, I think it's fine to put the public-domain stuff in main. The rest looks like it could go in non-free, if you want.
