On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:50:27AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
I guess we can summarize now? :-)
1) If you are the author of software, it's a bad idea to simply release code
into the Public Domain, mainly because you can't protect your self from
litigation by placing
+---[ Crist J. Clark ]--
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| As an analogy, take the example of BSD-licensed code where someone
| else owns the copyright (like anything in FreeBSD). Provided I follow
| the limited restrictions of the BSD-license, I can pile additional
| licensing terms on top of that. I
I guess we can summarize now? :-)
1) If you are the author of software, it's a bad idea to simply release code
into the Public Domain, mainly because you can't protect your self from
litigation by placing disclaimers in your code.
2) Public Domain means you relinquish your copyright
