On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:32:23 +0200 Alexandre Delanoë <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2015/08/28 14:22, Sven Bartscher: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:36:18 +0200 > > Alexandre Delanoë <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Sven, > > > I am still thinking about the "public domain" issue. > > > > > > I think, before blocking any decision, I think I should contact > > > the author upstream. > > > > > > I think I will propose him to chose a licence, maybe CC0 or BSD > > > but I need to understand the german legal context you mentioned > > > yesterday. Do you have more information about that ? > > > > For reference about issues in the past, with public domain packages, > > you can look at the history of haskell-setlocale: > > > > REJECT message from ftp-master: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-haskell-maintainers/2014-July/020271.html > > > > Following discussion (on different mailing list, so in different > > archive...): > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2014/07/msg00007.html > > > > To the more general problem: > > > > As I understand the underlying legal problem, which isn't very good, > > because it's hard to find information about it, some jurisdictions, > > like the US American, allow to give away your copyright on a work > > to someone else. Most explanations of this only mention giving your > > copyright to someone else, but I guess giving up the copyright > > completely, thus placing the work in the public domain, is a similar > > case. > > > > The German law just defines the copyright holder ("Urheber") as the > > person who created the work. There is no way to give it away or > > give it up. If you created it, it's your's for live and 70 years > > afterwards. The only thing you can give away are rights on how to > > use your work, either by using a public license (that applies for > > everyone) or through exclusive usage agreements with individuals > > but you stay the copyright holder for the time mentioned above. > > > > But please note, that I don't understand the issue very well and if > > giving up your copyright ownership, is the same case as giving it to > > someone else. > > > > Most of the information above was concluded from comparison of these > > two Wikipedia articles: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Germany > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Transfers_and_licenses > > Thanks > > > > > If this is unsatisfactory, we could also ask the question on > > [email protected]. > > > > PS: Please ask such questions on the public mailing list, if > > possible! That way more people, who might know more about the issue > > than me, can answer too and we might get a better answer. > > If you're okay with it, I would like to send a copy of our > > preceding discussion, to the mailing list. > > Sure, no pb. Here some discussion, Alexandre and me had. Posting it to the list now, so everyone else can read it. Regards Sven
