On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Solar Designer wrote:
As an alternative to copyright assignment to the FSF, perhaps Florian could
simply place his changes in the public domain by unambiguously stating so on
a public mailing list? I think that would save him time.
Is that really a sound legal advice?
I believe Florian is from Europe, and while I'm not a lawer of any kind I do
know that basically no european country have the same approach to "public
domain" as the US does. I wouldn't be so sure that waiving your rights like
that is effective enough.
In addition to that, there are even lawyers who claim public domain isn't a
license and thus is _incompatible_ with GPL so it might not even be a proper
solution in the first place.
To be clear: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
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/ daniel.haxx.se
