public domain

2005-03-27 Thread David Mandelberg
Hi, I'm writing a backup program for GNOME on Debian-ish distros (specifically Debian and Ubuntu) and I want the some of the documentation to be public domain, however I can't find any good resources on how to relinquish copyright. The closest thing I've found

"Public Domain"

1999-01-30 Thread Darren Benham
I thought I saw a conversation somewhere that said saying a license "is in the public domain" isn't good enough. What is Debian's position on this WRT the DFSG? -- = * http://b

public domain?

2006-08-07 Thread Miriam Ruiz
ng > a game for example. May I understand that as the code being in the public domain? Greetings and thanks, Miry (Please, CC me, as I'm not in the list) Miry __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijo

Public Domain

2001-07-27 Thread Cosimo Alfarano
Hi *, mdk, module devel. kit, is a tool for libgocr module creation. I made a ITP for both. The problem is in the README attached. It is the only reference in the tarball that recall a use license (libgocr is LGPL). AFAIK Public Domain is a 'class' of licenses, not a license. Sho

Re: public domain

2005-03-27 Thread Josh Triplett
David Mandelberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a backup program for GNOME on Debian-ish distros (specifically > Debian and Ubuntu) and I want the some of the documentation to be public > domain, > however I can't find any good resources on how to relinquish copyright

Re: public domain

2005-03-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:21:33PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > I'm writing a backup program for GNOME on Debian-ish distros (specifically > Debian and Ubuntu) and I want the some of the documentation to be public > domain, > however I can't find any good resource

Re: public domain

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Kellogg
ehavior. Let's say that you take your copyright and shout out to the world, "you can all use this however you want." Is that truly public domain? Could be you have just granted a very open license and retain the copyright... and that the license is revocable. Copyright assumes you r

Re: public domain

2005-03-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
xplicitly > grant... so you have to explicitly relinquish everything. That would be one of the primary ways in which it is acutely pro-corporate and pro-lawyer. > To be honest, I'm not entirely sure you can truly put anything into the > public > domain until the term o

Re: public domain

2005-03-28 Thread Sean Kellogg
> To be honest, I'm not entirely sure you can truly put anything into the > > public domain until the term of copyright has expired. > > This varies with jurisdiction. > > > All that being said, Creative Commons are smart people and write good > > stuff. I think you

Re: public domain

2005-03-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:24:39PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > The US-centric critiques have been addressed[1]. ...or not. That citation was inexplicably random. Did you simply pick the first thing which had somebody to do with CC and things which aren't in the US? I can't imagine how else you co

Re: public domain

2005-03-29 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 02:11 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:24:39PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > The US-centric critiques have been addressed[1]. > > ...or not. That citation was inexplicably random. Did you simply pick > the first thing which had somebody to do with CC

Re: public domain

2005-03-30 Thread MJ Ray
erns clearly, even for someone who has a passing familiarity with English law. I'm also not sure whether English law applies to the person wanting to place material into the public domain. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Subscribed to this list. No need to Cc, than

Re: public domain

2005-04-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
plain to your parliament member. :-/ The various public domain dedications you will see vary in the degree to which they add complicated verbiage to try to get around this problem. None of them is perfect, because it's a serious legal problem, but Creative Commons's does pretty well. (Bra

Re: public domain

2005-04-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
I've never heard of this. I've only heard of problems with the public domain in other jurisdictions (Germany?), not in the US. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: public domain

2005-04-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Glenn Maynard wrote: > Huh? I've never heard of this. I've only heard of problems with the > public domain in other jurisdictions (Germany?), not in the US. In pre-BCIA (1989) US law, copyright was surrendered by deliberately publishing without a copyright notice. This was

Re: public domain

2005-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Glenn Maynard wrote: > > Huh? I've never heard of this. I've only heard of problems with the > > public domain in other jurisdictions (Germany?), not in the US. > > In pre-BCIA (1989) US law, copyright was surrender

Re: public domain

2005-05-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
d > may be bequeathed by will or pass as personal property by the > applicable laws of intestate succession. > > That's effectively what is being done (or at least, what's being > attempted) in the cases where you state "This work is placed into the > public

Re: "Public Domain"

1999-01-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Jan-99, 19:52 (GMT), Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I saw a conversation somewhere that said saying a license "is > in the public domain" isn't good enough. What is Debian's position on > this WRT the DFSG? I've always underst

Re: "Public Domain"

1999-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Darren Benham writes: > I thought I saw a conversation somewhere that said saying a license "is > in the public domain" isn't good enough. I think that a court would interpret "I place this work in the public domain" as "I grant everyone everywhere unlimite

Re: "Public Domain"

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Steve Greenland writes: > I've always understood that placing a (formerly/potentially) copyrighted > work "in the public domain" is a statement by the author that they are > giving up all copyright rights (if that's the correct phrase), There are some copyright &qu

Re: "Public Domain"

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 21 h 20, the keyboard of Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always understood that placing a (formerly/potentially) copyrighted > work "in the public domain" is a statement by the author that they are > giving up all c

Re: public domain?

2006-08-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
It's probably a 'no rights reserved', which is basically the same as public domain. On 8/7/06, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, How can I handle something like this? > > I just wanted to know under which license is it released, > > because I cannot

Re: public domain?

2006-08-09 Thread Francesco Poli
. > > Pang 1.20 has no licence. It's totally free to use, and the > > source code are available to anyone who want to begin coding > > a game for example. > > May I understand that as the code being in the public domain? I would be very careful. Upstream seem to be a bit co

Re: public domain?

2006-08-09 Thread Raul Miller
On 8/9/06, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: authors, but please note that some people have doubts about the legal possibility to dedicate a work to the public domain under the Berne Convention (that is to say, it's not even clear whether it's at all possible to release

Re: public domain?

2006-08-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi again, Upstream has agreed to add a license file to the tgz archive: """ This program is totally free and public domain. Do what you want to do with the source code. If you want, just give me some credits (Michel Louvet) if you port the game on another platform or use part of t

Re: public domain?

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Donnellan
m is totally free and public domain. Do what you want to do with the source code. If you want, just give me some credits (Michel Louvet) if you port the game on another platform or use part of the source code. WARNING : The graphics and sound of the games are copyrighted material. There are in .

public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
Greetings! I'm fully aware that the opinions stated on this list have no bearing on anything, but I would still like to ask whether anyone here might have any ideas for improving the wording of the following license header: #!bin/bash # # Let this be known to all concerned: It is the specific inte

Re: Public Domain

2001-07-28 Thread Walter Landry
> This is the Module Development Kit for GOCR, created by Bruno Barberi Gnecco. > This Module Development Kit is under Public Domain. > > It's the skeleton with all the tools needed to compile your code into a > module, > that can be opened later by GOCR. It includes all s

Public domain fonts?

2001-09-11 Thread David Starner
I was looking at some fonts recently, and I was wondering if I could package them for Debian. The website (http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/moye/index.htm) says "A couple of Stephen Moye's Public Domain fonts", but isn't put up by him. One font (Trooklern) has o

Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
http://opensource.org/faq#public-domain http://opensource.org/faq#cc0 Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends on the country you're in. What if that country applies laws that violate DFSG ? Please enlighten me. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal

sct public domain

2016-06-23 Thread Jacob Adams
I am currently packaging the setcolortemperature program (sct) and I have two licensing questions. Firstly, the license of sct consists of one line: /* public domain, do as you wish Is this enough to consider this code to be in the public domain? I maintain this code as upstream but did not

New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Anonymous
I have seen quite a few people who want to licence their software as though it is in the public domain. they are often told to go with a bsd or x11 licence. They usually say they don't even whant the restrition of forcing people to include the notice. The reasoning for the use of the c

Public Domain and Packaging

2005-07-17 Thread Rob Crowther
Hello, I run Debian and I recently wrote a small Python program. However, while I do maintain it, I have placed it in the public domain. I read the Debian policy manual. After asking for more information about licensing issues and public domain packages on the IRC channel, I was told alternately

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
ay make it rather >> unclear as to whose intent is being expressed, but I think that would be >> rather moot anyway in the event of any dispute. I now cut the ribbon >> opening this to the free-for-all of opinions... >> > > What about: > > The author(s) of this scr

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:01:51 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 9/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Le Monday 25 September 2006, à 16:21:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> > What about: >> > >> > The author(s) of this script

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:43:22 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > PS-Please fix your mutt and/or terminal config, as the subject line should > read: > public domain, take ∞ > not: > public domain, take ?$B!g Never mind, as it appears that UTF-8 interoperability between the Debian ma

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > Greetings! I'm fully aware that the opinions stated on this list have no > bearing on anything, but I would still like to ask whether anyone here > might have any ideas for improving the wording of the following license > header: > > #!bin/bash > # > # Let this be know

Licensing Question: Public Domain?

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Hi Gang, I'm planning to package Norm Walsh's (aka Mr. DocBook) java catalog classes he wrote while working at Arbortext. The license simply says it's public domain (see below). Don't we need something that explicitly says we can redistribute this software? At least that

Public Domain in Russia

2001-04-30 Thread David Starner
ishing house "Russky Yazyk", publishing house "Russky Yazyk" has copyrights on editions of Mueller dictionary published after 1961 only. Thus the content of Mueller dictionary published before 1961 is in public domain. S.Starostin, as the author of the first electronic version of Mu

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-11 Thread Brian Ristuccia
Any fonts that have "public domain" or something to that effect in their copyright field can be distributed by Debian with no problems. Note that "freeware" typically isn't good enough for Debian, since it doesn't give permission to distribute modified copies. When t

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-11 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:35:19AM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > Any fonts that have "public domain" or something to that effect in their > copyright field can be distributed by Debian with no problems. Note that > "freeware" typically isn't good enough

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-11 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 7. I am releasing these typefaces as freeware. That's right: > You don't have to pay me. I am hoping, not in vain, I trust, that > you have a conscience and will not use or appropriate these typefaces > to your use without giving some credit where it is due.

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-11 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:53:37PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > It sounds like the intention is an X11-style licence (BSD without > advertising clause), but I know Debian usually insists on explicit > permission to distribute modified versions for it to count as free. > This is to prevent a

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-12 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Silly, philosophical point: if the author is dead, then there is a > > greatly reduced risk of the author coming back and "clarifying" the > > licence, so presumably you can interpret the licence more broadly in > > that case. > > Of course, you've got the p

Re: Public domain fonts?

2001-09-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:16:12AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > A spouse might have some kind of special authority, but a random > descendent can't claim to have a more authoritative knowledge of the > author's intentions than anyone else in the world, so there's no > reason anyone should t

Re: public domain, take ∞

2008-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Please excuse the thread necromancy. Hopefully it's better to demonstrate that I've searched the archives than not :-) Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [regarding an attempt to formulate a generally-applicable copyright > declaration achieving the effect of p

Re: public domain, take ∞

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For works that are not a "script", or that have copyright holders > who are not an "author", would this be a further improvement: > >The copyright holder of this work hereby grants irrevocable >permission to any party

Re: public domain, take ∞

2008-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For works that are not a “script”, or that have copyright holders > who are not an “author”, would this be a further improvement: > > The copyright holder of this work hereby grants irrevocable > permission to any party who may have access to it to

Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-03 Thread jfr . fg
Can I as a German use the following Public Domain-declaration-text, if I want the result to be dfsg-free? I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any

Wording for public domain

2010-10-20 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
// To the extent possible under law, X // has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. Is this wording valid to be considered as Public Domain? Thanks -- José Carlos García Sogo    js...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

public domain no modification

2012-04-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi all, I am working on the package for "Java Components for Mathematics" (#667923). Some files are distributed with a clear public domain type license: This source code file, and compiled classes derived from it, can be used and distributed without restriction, including for comme

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
Jérémy. > Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends > on the country you're in. What if that country applies > laws that violate DFSG ? > > Please enlighten me. Why? Does this affect any software that you're packaging? Short answer: any software in that cou

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 31/01/2013 19:45, MJ Ray wrote: > Jérémy. >> Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends >> on the country you're in. What if that country applies >> laws that violate DFSG ? >> >> Please enlighten me. > > Why? Does this affect any softw

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Jérémy Lal writes: > Will you still be uploading to main, if one day it becomes illegal > in your own country ? Are you taking a poll? Or is there particular interest in MJ Ray's answer? What is the actual issue you're addressing with starting this thread? -- \ “Think for yourselves and

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
actual issue you're addressing with starting this thread? My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, and the consequence is that i cannot handle it properly in debian packages. For example, reading [0]: When the License field in a paragraph has the short name public-d

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: > My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, If a work can actually be placed into the public domain, then that usually means that it has no copyright, and therefore automatically satisfies the DFSG so long as there is sou

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 04:25:21PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, > > If a work can actually be placed into the public domain, then that > usually means that it has no c

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 01/02/2013 01:25, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, > > If a work can actually be placed into the public domain Does this mean there are cases where the work cannot actually be pl

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:04:26AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > On 01/02/2013 01:25, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: > >> My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, > > If a work can actually be placed into the pu

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:04:26AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > To be practical, are these files all right to be listed > as 'public-domain' in debian/copyright : > > * without copyright notice Not public domain. Copyrighted without license. If the author hasn't stated

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek [130201 02:24]: > > Does this mean there are cases where the work cannot actually > > be placed into the public domain ? > > In *most* jurisdictions, it appears to not be possible for a copyright > holder to release their work into the public domain. That&#x

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
"Bernhard R. Link" > (So I'd be suprised if any jurisdiction would translate a > "I hereby place this work in the public domain" to anything but > either making it public domain where possible or to a full permissive > license). Sadly, "in the public do

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-05 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, at 07:56 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > In addition, I'd like to note that's what CC0 is for, really. It has > some neat fall-back clauses that trigger in the event a jurisdiction > doesn't allow for public domain works as such, and also releases &g

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-06 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Jérémy Lal writes: > Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends > on the country you're in. What if that country applies > laws that violate DFSG ? I think you have to distinguish between two cases. 1.) Someone releases some code that is accompanied with a statement

Re: sct public domain

2016-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Jacob Adams writes ("sct public domain"): > Firstly, the license of sct consists of one line: > /* public domain, do as you wish Seems like a clear enough intent to dedicate to the public domain, along with a permission to deal freely. So yes. > Secondly, sct.c c

Re: sct public domain

2016-06-26 Thread Jacob Adams
On 06/24/2016 04:00 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jacob Adams writes ("sct public domain"): >> Firstly, the license of sct consists of one line: >> /* public domain, do as you wish > > Seems like a clear enough intent to dedicate to the public domain, > along with a

Re: sct public domain

2016-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Jacob Adams writes ("Re: sct public domain"): > On 06/24/2016 04:00 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Jacob Adams writes ("sct public domain"): > >> Firstly, the license of sct consists of one line: > >> /* public domain, do as you wish > > > >

Re: sct public domain

2016-06-27 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Jackson writes: > Jacob Adams writes ("Re: sct public domain"): > > Ok that makes sense. Wasn't sure if public domain was more > > complicated but clearly not. > > "Public domain" is very complicated. It means different things in > different

Re: sct public domain

2016-06-28 Thread Jacob Adams
ed that information years later. > Ok. Got permission from Ingo to use his response in the copyright file and the relevant portion now looks like this: Files: sct.c Copyright: 2016 Ted Unangst whitepoints data copyright 2013 Ingo Thies License: public-domain-sct and public-

Public domain and DSFGness

2019-06-12 Thread David Given
;s good enough for Debian it's good enough for pretty much everybody. Plus, I'm hoping to be able to produce a Debian package containing this stuff eventually for use in emulators. Back then people were really slack about licensing. Typically you'll see software contributed to a 'p

Bug#294559: Public domain licensing

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Dear knowledge source, As can be seen in #294559 I hope to become a debian developer. In the same bug report one can see that the package I'd like to start with is netbiff. According to it's web page the license is: " License All code contained in netbiff is released into th

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Sean Kellogg
As long as whoever uses this license understands they are not, in fact, putting it in the public domain (copyright is retained)... and that this is not, in fact, a license (waver of implied warranty is a contractual provision)... and that the license is not irrevocable (after 35 years the

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Don Armstrong
nce their software as > though it is in the public domain. they are often told to go with a > bsd or x11 licence. They usually say they don't even whant the > restrition of forcing people to include the notice. The MIT license is a fairly standard way to license things in a manner as cl

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:53:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > First of, please use your real name when discussing things upon this > list. Anonymity makes it rather difficult for others to follow your > arguments, and interferes with the primary mission of debian-legal. I usually just ignore an

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Don Armstrong wrote: > First of, please use your real name when discussing things upon this > list. Anonymity makes it rather difficult for others to follow your > arguments, and interferes with the primary mission of debian-legal. I'd say to at least use a reasonably unique pseudonym if you wish

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:53:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > > > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software]. > > > > The part above is almost a no-op, and a goo

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Anonymous said on Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:34:42PM -0400,: > well understood. Therefore in an attempt to satify all parties I > propose the following licence for use in those types of situations. > The licence I propose consists of the MIT licence below, excluding > the part in the quare bra

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:39:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2005, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > telling me that I can freely distribute the part that is Lua has no > > value, since I can't actually do so (it's tucked away inside a > > binary; if I want Lua, I'll go download the sourc

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-05 Thread Raul Miller
ourage free use > of code, and it's understandable that people with this philosophy don't > want to force people to include a useless license block, either. These two statements are at odds with each other. I think it's confusing and misleading to claim otherwise. Fundamentally, the

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
dditional restrictions), and knowledge that they can do so. These aren't goals of permissive licenses, and that's not a bug. > Fundamentally, the goal of public domain is to allow arbtrary non-free > use of the material. And the same basic goal holds for near public- > domain l

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Anonymous
for a licence that has for all intents and purposes no restrictions. a public domain licence. I was just offering such a licence. If you don't belive me that may people have requested such a licence look up these message ids: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:33:43PM -0400, Anonymous wrote: > Perhaps I was not clear that I do not intend to use this licence. I have > noted that there have been at least ten requests for a licence that has for > all intents and purposes no restrictions. a public domain licence. I wa

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread astronut
license for which users can say "Oh, the PD license" >and know what it means (as we do now for the BSD, MIT, and GPL >licenses) > - a license so short that one can look at it and know what it means >(e.g., "X is dedicated to the public domain", &quo

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
ok at it and know what it means > >(e.g., "X is dedicated to the public domain", "X may be > >redistributed in any form without restriction"). > > > >The consensus I seem to read from debian-legal is that the second type > >can't exist,

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Måns Rullgård
astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am probably wrong here, since I joined the list in the middle of the > discussion, but can't you just put a notice at the top of the code like > this? > > /* This code was written by and is hereby released into the > public do

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
written by and is hereby released into the > > public domain */ > > There are supposedly jurisdictions where the concept of public domain > does not exist, and such a statement would have no meaning. The Netherlands is one. Well, we do have a public domain, but it only contains works

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:57:47PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > What's "the public domain" in the context of UK / European law? I don't know, as I am neither a lawyer nor a European. However, I assume there is some concept of a work which has passed out of copyright (

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > The Netherlands is one. Well, we do have a public domain, but it > only contains works that by law have no copyright and works whose > copyright has expired. So what's wrong with a license like: You may do anyt

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > But would ever bring a lawsuit asserting copyright infringement? His successors might (perhaps especially if they happen to be eg. native to such a jurisdiction themselves). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050606T165853-0400, Jeff King wrote: > So what's wrong with a license like: > You may do anything with this work that you would with a work in the > public domain. I have occasionally used the following notice: Written by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho. You may treat this

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:46:24PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > > But would ever bring a lawsuit asserting copyright infringement? > > His successors might (perhaps especially if they happen to be eg. native > to such a jurisdi

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:58:53PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > _Probably_ a Dutch judge would treat the above statement as a > > license that means "do whatever you want", since he's supposed to > > reconstruct the intention of the author from such a vague statement. > > And "do whatever you want"

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Sean Kellogg
the author cannot be dooped into doing something foolish for a short-term benefit. Of course, this means that it is practically impossible to put something into the public domain prior to the expiration of the copyright. You really can't even wait 35 years after you release the software

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Raul Miller
On 6/5/05, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:08:23PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Fundamentally, the goal of public domain is to allow arbtrary non-free > > use of the material. And the same basic goal holds for near public- > > do

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:36:27PM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > To resolve this sad and not uncommon story, Congress granted the copyright > holders an inalienable termination right which allows the author to revoke a In other words, "for their own good", Congress removed people's right to licen

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Sean Kellogg
ch as people honestly wanting to give their creation > to the world, for free, guaranteeing that the work will always remain > under those terms. Yes... because SO many works are released directly into the Public Domain... foolish Congress, protecting the rights of the many over the obscur

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
t; > part of "everywhere"). Permissive licenses are close to public domain, > > and reasons for using the two are similar. > > Change "everywhere" to "allowed for every person, regardless of > the restrictions they then impose" and I'll agree with you. &g

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
cted, it backfires as soon as an unexpected > > situation arises--such as people honestly wanting to give their creation > > to the world, for free, guaranteeing that the work will always remain > > under those terms. > > Yes... because SO many works are released dire

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:36:27PM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > > Yes, it is the intention. How about a license like: > > > Do whatever you want. > > > The only argument I have heard against this is that you (or your heirs) > > > may later say "Oh, but I didn't really mean *anything*." Which s

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-07 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:48:57PM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > Yes... because SO many works are released directly into the Public > Domain... I have been on this list for about 6 weeks, and I have seen no less than three active threads regarding public domain licenses. A minority, p

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