On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Paulo Matias<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd not agree here. Isn't public domain exactly the absence of a >> license? When something is public domain you have no obligations at >> all. Even citing the author's name isn't required. You can do what you >> want with a public domain work. >> >> So I can't see why should we require to ship a different public domain >> declaration for each public domain package. I think something like >> 'none' or 'PD' without the obligation to install anything to >> /usr/share/licenses would be the best way to go here. > > This is very very not true. There is no such thing as "public domain". > Any code I write, without otherwise noting it, is copyrighted to me in > the US and copying of it is not allowed under standard copyright laws > unless I explicitly say otherwise. That's the funny thing - copyright > actually protects the original author _by default_. Even more to the > point, there is no way to willfully give up implicit rules such as > this across the globe. > > Check out the FAQ here: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
More complete info on wikipedia, as always: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#No_legal_restriction_on_use
