Alex Rousskov said on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:26:11PM -0700,:
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The Authors place this Software is in Public Domain.
Creative Commons public domain dedication follows
If the above Public Domain dedication is deemed invalid
under any theory of law, current or
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
Alex Rousskov said on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:26:11PM -0700,:
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The Authors place this Software is in Public Domain.
Creative Commons public domain dedication follows
If the above Public Domain dedication is deemed invalid
Alex Rousskov scripsit:
Or is the legal world so badly broken that it is practically
impossible to reliably place software in public domain?
Pretty much. Dedications to the public domain have been rare to
nonexistent in the past, and nobody is quite sure whether they can
actually be achieved
Alex Rousskov scripsit:
P.S. If a US citizen can take NASA's US-PD software and license it
to Australians, can a US citizen can take NASA's US-PD software
and release it in Australian public domain?
I missed this before. No. The software is not PD in Australia and only
NASA could
I use Creative Commons public domain dedication[1] for some of the
software I author. I am concerned that some people believe that it is
impossible to permanently and/or reliably place software in public
domain in some countries. It appears that while Creative Commons
public domain dedication
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