Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
http://opensource.org/faq#public-domain http://opensource.org/faq#cc0 Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends on the country you're in. What if that country applies laws that violate DFSG ? Please enlighten me. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
Jérémy. Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends on the country you're in. What if that country applies laws that violate DFSG ? Please enlighten me. Why? Does this affect any software that you're packaging? Short answer: any software in that country is not free software, but

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 31/01/2013 19:45, MJ Ray wrote: Jérémy. Public domain is not a license, its meaning depends on the country you're in. What if that country applies laws that violate DFSG ? Please enlighten me. Why? Does this affect any software that you're packaging? Not particularly. Some packages i

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: Will you still be uploading to main, if one day it becomes illegal in your own country ? Are you taking a poll? Or is there particular interest in MJ Ray's answer? What is the actual issue you're addressing with starting this thread? -- \ “Think

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 31/01/2013 23:16, Ben Finney wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: Will you still be uploading to main, if one day it becomes illegal in your own country ? Are you taking a poll? Or is there particular interest in MJ Ray's answer? No. What is the actual issue you're addressing

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, If a work can actually be placed into the public domain, then that usually means that it has no copyright, and therefore automatically satisfies the DFSG so long as there is source. In

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 04:25:21PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, If a work can actually be placed into the public domain, then that usually means that it has no copyright, and therefore

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 01/02/2013 01:25, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, If a work can actually be placed into the public domain Does this mean there are cases where the work cannot actually be placed into the public

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:04:26AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: On 01/02/2013 01:25, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013, Jérémy Lal wrote: My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, If a work can actually be placed into the public domain Does this mean there are

Re: Public Domain again

2013-01-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:04:26AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: To be practical, are these files all right to be listed as 'public-domain' in debian/copyright : * without copyright notice Not public domain. Copyrighted without license. If the author hasn't stated anything, then the work is