On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > The real problem is of course that copyright is a statutory right > and like all statutory rights cannot be abandoned
Wow. Looks like you are saying that we have something that expires or disappears after X years, but cannot be forced (accelerated) to expire or disappear after X-1 years. IMHO, this is totally absurd, but I am not surprised this is true in some legal systems. So far, it looks like to safely place something in public domain, one should not claim a priori ownership/authorship but simply anonymously release the thing into the wild. SourceForge, CreativeCommons, or somebody should offer such a service. Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3