"Bernhard R. Link" <[email protected]> > (So I'd be suprised if any jurisdiction would translate a > "I hereby place this work in the public domain" to anything but > either making it public domain where possible or to a full permissive > license).
Sadly, "in the public domain" has two meanings: 1. the copyright-lacking sense used already in this thread; 2. publicly available. I've not seen case law, but I fear that it would be reasonably possible for someone to convince a court that a holder meant to make a work available but not permit everything. Anyone seen it tried? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
