American FOSS developers who put their code in the public domain are taking those 2 minutes to slap a legal-like document on their code. A short document telli

American FOSS developers who put their code in the public domain are taking those 2 minutes to slap a legal-like document on their code. A short document telling other programmers that the code is public domain clearly communicates the intent and wishes of the author to other developers. They're giving something to the world for free, with no strings attached, clearly communicated. But despite that, some people will complain because it wasn't done in precisely the correct way to keep corporate lawyers in a notoriously legalistic and pedantic foreign country happy.