Re: public domain, take ∞

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For works that are not a "script", or that have copyright holders
> who are not an "author", would this be a further improvement:
>
>The copyright holder of this work hereby grants irrevocable
>permission to any party who may have access to it to threat it as
>though it were a work to which any and all copyrights have
>expired.

The Creative Common's CC0 project will probably be a better
alternative once it is finalised:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0

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Re: public domain, take ∞

2008-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Please excuse the thread necromancy. Hopefully it's better to
demonstrate that I've searched the archives than not :-)

Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [regarding an attempt to formulate a generally-applicable copyright
> declaration achieving the effect of public domain]
>
> "The author of this script hereby grants irrevocable permission to
> any party who may have access to it to treat it as though it were a
> work to which any and all copyrights have expired."
> 
> I think that would be an improvement.

For works that are not a “script”, or that have copyright holders
who are not an “author”, would this be a further improvement:

The copyright holder of this work hereby grants irrevocable
permission to any party who may have access to it to threat it as
though it were a work to which any and all copyrights have
expired.

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Re: TrueCrypt License 2.5

2008-10-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Philipp Hübner schrieb:
> The click-wrap mechanism wouldn't be a problem, sun-java does the same.
> If this is the only difficulty I'd give it a try.

sun-java is in non-free.
Click-wrap licensee mechanisms makes the license non-free if you are not
allowed to remove this mechanism from the source code - if you are
allowed to remove it from the source, then do it and it is fine.

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