Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Gioele Barabucci
Il 02/10/2013 01:40, Charles Plessy ha scritto: As for CC0, as Ben explained, it is a license, and the simplest is to list the copyright holders as for other licenses. Hi, thanks for the suggestion. (BTW, is the fact that CC0 is a licence rather than a dedication an accepted POW? I thought

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Gioele Barabucci gio...@svario.it writes: thanks for the suggestion. (BTW, is the fact that CC0 is a licence rather than a dedication an accepted POW? I thought it was still an open question.) The conservative position, since the current copyright regime makes it extremely difficult to divest

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On 02/10/13 08:49, Gioele Barabucci wrote: (BTW, is the fact that CC0 is a licence rather than a dedication an accepted POW? I thought it was still an open question.) My understanding is that it's both, stuck together, in one convenient document - to work around the jurisdictions where you

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Gioele Barabucci
Il 02/10/2013 10:01, Ben Finney ha scritto: Could the copyright-format page [1] be changed to state more explicitly that the Copyright field should list the names of the authors even in the case of public domain works (or works licensed via CC0)? I don't see that follows from what we've

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Gioele Barabucci gio...@svario.it writes: I'm sorry but I fear that my main message did not came across. I will try reformulating my question with a example. Thank you. We have the case of software foobar released by John Doe using the licence CC0. foobar is not in the public domain (John

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:49:46AM +0200, Gioele Barabucci a écrit : Could the copyright-format page [1] be changed to state more explicitly that the Copyright field should list the names of the authors even in the case of public domain works (or works licensed via CC0)? I would like to file

CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-01 Thread Gioele Barabucci
Hello, in the review [1] of a ruby package licensed with CC0, the following question came up: What should the Copyright field contain for packages dedicated to the public domain with CC0? * Should Copyright contain just Public domain (CC0) to reflect the fact that it has been dedicted to

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-01 Thread Ben Finney
Gioele Barabucci gio...@svario.it writes: What should the Copyright field contain for packages dedicated to the public domain with CC0? DEP 5 URL:http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ is Debian's standard for the ‘debian/copyright’ content. Note that “CC0” is not *quite* the same thing as “public

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Gioele Barabucci gio...@svario.it writes: What should the Copyright field contain for packages dedicated to the public domain with CC0? Le Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 08:25:48AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : DEP 5 URL:http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ is Debian's standard for the