On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:11:41PM -0400, Phil M Perry wrote: > Sean, could you elaborate on what kind of problems are encountered > with "Public Domain" licenses in some other countries? I've never > heard of this. When you write something, you own the copyright (even > without an explicit copyright statement, so long as your name is on it). > You can reserve all rights to its distribution and copying, or you can > license it to others and list what rights they have and do not have, to do > with the material.
I wouldn't want to bore people too much on this one (and yes, I know
this was actually directed at the other sean), but copyright is actually
really complicated, and different in every country. Perhaps that would
make a good discussion during a "Releasing Software" talk?
-Sean
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