Re: Public Domain ( was Re: Full Text Search w/ MySQL)

2006-08-12 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vr, 04-08-2006 te 16:55 +1000, schreef Ian Holsman: > To quote the paper: This “Give-It-Away” license provides no protection > for anyone if the donated software causes harm. > > ie.. even if you didn't mean it, if I used a piece of public domain > code in a app I write and it fails, i can

Public Domain ( was Re: Full Text Search w/ MySQL)

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Holsman
On 03/08/2006, at 10:42 PM, Andrew Durdin wrote: the code in the paper is released intothe public domain, so there's nothing stopping any interested personfrom taking it and developing it into something more suited for generalsearching.AndrewThis isn't directed at you, or your paper Andrew.I