On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > The Netherlands is one. Well, we do have a public domain, but it > only contains works that by law have no copyright and works whose > copyright has expired.
So what's wrong with a license like: You may do anything with this work that you would with a work in the public domain. > _Probably_ a Dutch judge would treat the above statement as a > license that means "do whatever you want", since he's supposed to > reconstruct the intention of the author from such a vague statement. > And "do whatever you want" seems the intention. Yes, it is the intention. How about a license like: Do whatever you want. The only argument I have heard against this is that you (or your heirs) may later say "Oh, but I didn't really mean *anything*." Which seems silly to me, but perhaps that's why I'm a programmer and not a lawyer. Is there a legal way to say "No, really, ANYTHING" without resorting to listing all of the things (which can get quite long)? > But would <name> ever bring a lawsuit asserting copyright infringement? It seems like it's not possible to prevent the author from bringing a suit at all (even with a public domain dedication). However, you can ideally make the suit trivially lose-able with a sufficient license. -Peff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
