Marco van de Voort escribió: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >>>> In Germany, "public domain" does not exist. One *can not* give up >>>> the copyright. But one can allow unrestricted use. >>> So what would you think reading that license? >> You must ask the author to public it under a license that fits better. > > To me the text is totally clear. I do this from the perspective of Dutch > law, but afaik most countries continental European law is not that > different, since they all are signatories of the Bern convention. > > Before that, let's first define PD, PD is where the > > The first part grants a license with rights comparable to works with expired > copyright (the PD, also in Germany afaik, one just can't "put" it there). > > The second part can mean two things: > - (the more likely one) He grants a non-exclusive license. IOW he can still > do with the source as he pleases. So, the author is not limited by the > license (though that wouldn't be that bad in practice) > - He doesn't waive "Persoonlijksrecht" (personal rights), which are fairly > limited rights like "being able to be named the author of the work". These > rights are pretty much inalienable anyway, but naming them can sometimes > make litigation easier. > > In the context of continental law, this is pretty much more liberal than a > BSD license. The BSD license explicit limits misrepresenting the source, > this license is only bound by the law sets. (and its loopholes)
Ok, I finally published it, I hope that the author notices and contacts me. http://wiki.freepascal.org/RackCtls http://ventoso.org/luca/rackctls/ Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
