Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-16 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The author may also decide to declare his work as public domain - no special licence is then necessary. The only problem with the whole public domain thing is that it's not as easy to donate things to public domain as one thinks.

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 Jan 2014, at 16:11, Travis Siegel wrote: The only problem with the whole public domain thing is that it's not as easy to donate things to public domain as one thinks. Beats me why, but there's a whole legal thing, apparently, you can't just say I donate this code to the public domai

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 16 Jan 2014, at 16:11, Travis Siegel wrote: The only problem with the whole public domain thing is that it's not as easy to donate things to public domain as one thinks. Beats me why, but there's a whole legal thing, apparently, you can't just sa

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-16 Thread Thaddy
My whole point is: add a license that you find suitable to your intend. But add a license. Pref compatible with the fpc licenses. In the case of the company: I almost forgot about it. You can be right, but not in the us of a without big pockets to enforce it. (In Europe it is much easier, in t

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-16 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 01/16/2014 05:17 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 16 Jan 2014, at 16:11, Travis Siegel wrote: The only problem with the whole public domain thing is that it's not as easy to donate things to public domain as one thinks. Beats me why, but there's a whole legal thing, apparently, you can't just sa