Angels, head of a pin, lawyers, three doors down :-)

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> wrote:

> Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >If your need is to list the licenses a package contains, in a way there is
> >no need to list the "public domain" bits because there are no strings,
> err,
> >licenses attached.  It is in the public domain.
>
> Null licensing is not the same as not saying anything about licensing.
>
> >                  I know for a fact that in Finnish law an author cannot
> >give away his rights, and the same applies in other European countries.
>
> So "public domain" isn't necessarily even a null license.
>
> -zefram
>



-- 
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. --
Jack Cohen

Reply via email to