Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:08:48AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > I concur. Once the author has said "public domain" he has promised not > > to sue anybody over anything they do to the work; with the explicit > > exception about removing the copyright notice. > You can't do that. If you state that something of yours is in the public > domain, you have abandoned your claim of copyright. This is theoretically right, but I think that there is a fair chance that a court will decide to interpret a formally self-contradictory copyright statement that says "This is public domain but you may not do X" as if it was a license saying, "You may treat this as if is was in the public domain, except you can't do X". -- Henning Makholm
