On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see anything wrong with authors not being able to give up
their moral rights. Why do you think this needs fixing?
Some people clearly want to be able to. The OP for example.
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bye,
pabs
Le lundi 03 novembre 2008 à 18:28 +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
2. VERBATIM COPYING
You may not use
technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
copying of the copies you make or distribute.
I wonder how we should consider the fact they did not remove nor
rephrase this
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] they are still taking comments toward the draft, so make
sure all relevant comments are sent to the FSF. GFDL 1.3 FAQ, GFDL 2.0
draft:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-faq.html
http://gplv3.fsf.org/fdl-draft-2006-09-22.html
stet is still broken and
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how we should consider the fact they did not remove nor
rephrase this obnoxious clause. Back in the FDL discussions, it was
commonly accepted that this was a honest mistake and that it was going
to be fixed in
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081103 19:50]:
Can I as a German use the following Public Domain-declaration-text,
if I want the result to be dfsg-free?
I, the creator of this work,
hereby release it into the public domain.
This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally
but I fail to see what a
I hereby place this work in the public domain.
fails to do.
In Germany there is no possibility to waive copyright.
You neither can give it to somebody other nor to the public.
So this attention is possibly void, and it's unsure, what a random German court
would decide.
* Paul Wise:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see anything wrong with authors not being able to give up
their moral rights. Why do you think this needs fixing?
Some people clearly want to be able to. The OP for example.
Why wouldn't it be
* Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081104 21:29]:
Word on the street is that you can't effectively disclaim warranty
while putting something in the public domain.
Well, as we are discussing the German POV, as German you cannot disclaim
warrenty effectively at all as far as I do understand it.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081104 21:09]:
but I fail to see what a
I hereby place this work in the public domain.
fails to do.
In Germany there is no possibility to waive copyright.
You can give licenses. You cannot give up authorship. There is no
direkt translation of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you have the option to decide on a license, it's probably far
simpler to *retain* copyright as per default, and grant the
recipient a do-just-about-anything license like the Expat license
Is there any problem with the by default Public Domain Declaration,
if
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Ben Finney:
It's not clear that “use” is enough; it doesn't specify copy,
modify, or redistribute rights. This also doesn't disclaim
warranty, which might be dangerous for someone distributing
programs.
Word on the street is that you can't
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS: What's wrong with using a Mail-Followup-To: header?
(That's “header field”. Remember, folks: an email message has, as
specified in RFC 2822, exactly *one* header, consisting of multiple
fields.)
I can see two reasons:
It's non-standard. It is not
I don't know of any default Public Domain Declaration. There are
countless variations, with none of them being common enough IME to
warrant default.
_by_ default, not default.
Why have the free license as fallback?
I advise you to simplify: Work *with* the fact that you've got
copyright,
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:55 AM, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stet is still broken and the Google Summer of Code work is MIA, so
where should comments be sent?
Commenting works for me and others:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why have the free license as fallback?
I advise you to simplify: Work *with* the fact that you've got
copyright,
and license the work accordingly.
After all this seems to be the best,
although I like the Idea to give up copyright.
So do I. I encourage both
On 11558 March 1977, jfr fg wrote:
Can I as a German use the following Public Domain-declaration-text,
if I want the result to be dfsg-free?
I, the creator of this work,
hereby release it into the public domain.
This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible,
I grant any
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