(CCing debian-legal, so that they could give advice. Full thread at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-john-devel/2009-January/000232.html )
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:11 +0300, Solar Designer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:03:07PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > However, I was planning the release of 1.7.3.1 in Debian and... luckily I > > marked my debian/copyright with big TODO marks, we avoided a sure REJECT ;) > > Well, I think you could include 1.7.3.1 in Debian without the patches > initially. You don't have to apply them. Sure I could. But then I would forget about them, and after some months I'd say "wtf are these patches here? rm -rf debian/patches/*!" ;-) (trust me, no one knows me better than myself.) > I wrote: > > > > The possibilities for contributed code, to be considered for inclusion, > > > appear to be: > > > > > > - public domain statement (in this case, the author should be mentioned, > > > but no copyright statement may be included; in fact, a copyright > > > disclaimer may be included along with the "placed in the public domain" > > > statement); > > > > Well, copyright statement is just saying "Hey, I did it, I have my rights > > on it and can exercise those" -- > > A copyright statement says "I have my rights on it and can exercise > those". It does not say "I did it" (copyright could also have been > transferred to the person/entity). Yes, sorry, I meant that. > > but right after you release it in the "public domain". > > I have no idea what you mean by this. > > My point was that "public domain" and "copyrighted work" are mutually > exclusive. So one can't meaningfully include both a copyright and a > public domain statement on a file. I meant something like: /* * Copyright © xxxx, Foo Bar <f...@bar.com> * This work is hereby released to Public Domain */ That is: with the first line you state your rights over the code, and with the second you exercise those by deliberately losing them. debian-legal: am I totally wrong? (IANAL.) > [..] Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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