"This file is in the public domain" is sufficient in Belgian legislation, and in any droit d'auteur legislation I know of.
sincerely, Batist On 30/03/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Summary: > > If there's a file in one of my packages that only declares to be in the > public domain, do I have to contact the author and let him clarify this, > or can I leave things as they are? > > > I recall to have been told that, in order to make a piece of software > free, it is not sufficient to say "This file is in the public domain", > but that instead one has to write something like "Everybody is free to > use, distribute and/or modify it". > > On the other hand, I have learned meanwhile that in some legislations > the term Public Domain does indeed have a defined meaning. From this I > would conclude that declaring something "Public Domain" should be > sufficient, and that effectively no court could sanely assert a > copyright infringement if someone used a file on that basis, even when > the term doesn't have a well-defined meaning there - at least if the > copyright holder is from a country where it has. > > Regards, Frank > > -- > Frank Küster > Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. > Zürich > Debian Developer (teTeX) > >
