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I would say no. I think they should go public domain, as that's the future. One of the funniest/best business models out there is SQlite (https://sqlite.org/co
by breck 6y ago
I would say no. I think they should go public domain, as that's the future.
One of the funniest/best business models out there is SQlite (https://sqlite.org/copyright.html https://sqlite.org/copyright.html). They give it away to the public domain, but some lawyers wrongly claim that that is not enough, so they will "sell" you a warranty asserting it is all public domain.
- rhencke 6y agoThose lawyers are correct. Not all jurisdictions of the world legally recognize the concept of 'public domain'.
- colejohnson66 6y agoThere does exist the CC0 license[0] which attempts to alleviate it, but I haven’t heard if it’s been tested in the courts. [0]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- kwertyoowiyop 6y agoPatent/copyright insurance? Sounds good, and not difficult to get a check written for, considering how much is spent on the service of open-source scanning.