Serge Wroclawski writes: > Regarding the license, in the United States, only the Federal government > can place something in the Public Domain (it's a very specific term that > has legal meaning),
Serge is simplifying the situation substantially. There is no case law testing a public domain dedication. If you say "I am the author of X, and I place X into the public domain", it is not clear from any court case that you might not have done so. In principle it is the same as not copyrighting something prior to the Berne Convention, or a copyright expiring (which no copyright has done since WWII because of the Mickey Mouse Protection Acts that have extended copyright retroactively.) -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
