On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:25:42AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> The Expat license terms http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt>
> are very simple and seem closest to his apparent intent.
For some scripts, even that is excessively long.
What I personally use is a note of the form "You may treat this
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:14:32 +0200 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:25:42AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The Expat license terms http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt>
> > are very simple and seem closest to his apparent intent.
>
> For some scripts, even that is excessi
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:56:01AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> I think this is a bit vague, since there's no clear explicit
> definition of "public domain" in copyright laws I am aware of.
Laws don't define all the phrases they use, and they generally avoid defining
phrases they don't use. Thi
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:37:58 +0200 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:56:01AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > I think this is a bit vague, since there's no clear explicit
> > definition of "public domain" in copyright laws I am aware of.
>
> Laws don't define all the phra
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> As I said, the laws *do* use that term...
My mistake, sorry. Still, the main point stands.
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> The CC public domain dedication (one of the few things Creative Commons
> got right, IMHO), is much more verbose:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
There is also CC0, which is intended as a more universal PD dedication
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:18:16 +0200 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > As I said, the laws *do* use that term...
>
> My mistake, sorry. Still, the main point stands.
Your main point seems to be that, apart from some fringe cases (p
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:22:54PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Your main point seems to be that, apart from some fringe cases (people
> misusing the term as if it were equivalent to "shareware"), there's no
> serious dispute as to what "public domain" means.
More or less, yes.
>
> You're luck
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