Pick whatever "public domain" licence you prefer: GPL, MIT, Apache, or whatever you believe will prevent legal abuses. In principle though I agree that data entered by the public should be owned by the public.
On 27/01/07, David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/27/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philip Goetz wrote: > > On 1/17/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> It's find to talk about making the data "public domain", but that's > not > >> a good idea. > > > > Why not? > Because "public domain" offers NO protection. If you want something > close to what public domain used to provide, then the MIT license is a > good choice. If you make something public domain, you are opening > yourself to abusive lawsuits. (Those are always a possibility, but a > license that disclaims responsibility offers *some* protection.) > > Public domain used to be a good choice (for some purposes), before > lawsuits became quite so pernicious. This license chooser may help: http://creativecommons.org/license/ Perhaps MindPixel2 discussion deserves its own list at this stage? Listbox, Google and many others offer list services (Google Code also offers a wiki, source version management, and other features). David ------------------------------ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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