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Just a note about copyright law: You can't legally place something in the public domain (even saying you want it public domain is meaningless). The best you ca
by fossuser 15y ago
Just a note about copyright law: You can't legally place something in the public domain (even saying you want it public domain is meaningless). The best you can do is license it permissively giving up your five rights to copyright with a clear, perpetual and irrevocable license. The Apache license is a good one to use.
This code as it stands is still fully copyrighted and copying it is technically a felony.
- eridius 15y agoI've heard that's true in other countries, but I'm pretty sure the US allows you to place something in public domain.
- fossuser 15y agoThat's not the case, you can't opt to enter things in the public domain in the US - the best you can do is license permissively.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoCreative Commons have a pretty good piece on this under their CC0 info at http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0. I'd be very interested if anyone knows of a genuine situation in which one can't disclaim the IP rights one is offering up in a CC0 license (some aspect of moral rights?). I'm thinking of the possibility of problems with heirs-in-title, or somesuch, choosing to assert a right that their successor (the work's creator) wished to give up ... but really I can't see why an heir should be allowed such a right. ?
- fossuser 15y agoWhy am I being down voted? What I said is correct and shows some of the current absurdity of copyright. It's clear, relevant, and accurate.