On 02/08/2011 06:03 PM, Kaiting Chen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Gordon JC Pearce<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm going to jump in and say that you may consider any of my PKGBUILDs to
be under the WTFPL (google it, text may not be worksafe if they object to
Anglo-Saxon epithets. I'm sure you get the idea).
Speaking of which I never understood how it was possible for a jurisdiction
to not have the concept of a 'public domain' (thus necessitating the WTFPL).
For example, where does a patented process go after the expiration of the
patent?
Oh and once again I vote we public domain (or as close as possible) all
PKGBUILD's in the AUR.
And one last point I want to bring up. Often PKGBUILD's are distributed with
patches or other works not written by the author of the PKGBUILD. I'm not an
expert but it seems to me that the license on the PKGBUILD would have to be
compatible with the license on each such bundled work. --Kaiting.
For example, here in Germany, there is a public domain where things go
if their copyright expires or they don't reach the threshold of
originality. You just can't waive your rights and release something into
it directly. How is this possible? Well: someone sat down and wrote a law.
(Note that patents and copyright don't have much to do with each other,
I'm talking about copyright here. There are no software patents here.)
WRT licenses, I too think BSD would be a good choice for obvious reasons
(permissive, short/simple, widely used, unversioned, compatible to most
other licenses). That is, if we need a license at all. This licensing
stuff always gets in the way, I wish there was a way we could avoid it.
I am not a lawyer.
Felix
