On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:45:40 PM UTC+3, danderson wrote: > > > So the recipe is simple - if you want to be rich - go find any public > domain > > material, hack it to find possible mistakes and while author is still > alive sue > > him for all possible compensations so that he will never do that again. > > > > It seems that snippet contributors at http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/are in > > danger. > > Yes, and yes. No matter how many people pretend that they can place > stuff into the public domain easily, it does not make it any more > real. Public domain is difficult to apply, difficult to work with, and > potentially dangerous to work with. It will not be supported for > hosting at Google Code. You are welcome to go to another host that > will let you take the risks associated with this decision. > > ----[cut here]---- > > ... > > ----[cut here]---- > > Public domain and disclaimer of liability are mutually exclusive. You > cannot exercise a right which you just denied yourself. Also, how to > make the license proliferation problem worse is definitely something > we do not want discussed on Google Code mailing lists, thank you. > > > Yep, I've read that, but I still want to try once more and change > situation > > instead of complaining so I could be able to post my code freely (not as > > in GPL) and use such contributions in the same way. Perhaps one day > > somebody will have to establish public domain foundation to protect > > interests of people like me, but for now there is still hope for a > simpler > > way. > > I'm sure we'd all love a real and simple public domain (that's > actually debatable, but not here, please), but the legal reality is > that this does not exist, and that Google Code will NOT host things > you claim to be public domain. This fact of policy on behalf of Google > Code is not going to change. No really, it's not. > This Sunday there will be exactly 5 years since this thread was started. It seems that nothing had changed in copyright law except new SOPA/PIPA initiatives, but for public domain code there is now a new instrument that can be supported by Google Code called Unlicense. http://unlicense.org/
Does that sound better than CC0 for the code? Is there a chance to get support for the Unlicense on Google Code? -- anatoly t. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code-hosting/-/ccV39JfTUHwJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
