Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-04-04 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 02. 04. 24 v 10:55 odp. David Foster napsal(a): Ideally I'd want to register (as a SPDX license) a "public domain determination" text that covers the case of "This work is in the public domain in the /United States/" (since that's the determination that applies for all the Project Gutenberg

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-04-02 Thread David Foster
Thank you for the references Jilayne. To briefly respond to the points in Dealing with Public Domain within SPDX Files ( https://github.com/spdx/old-wiki/blob/main/Pages/Legal%20Team/Decisions/Dealing%20with%20Public%20Domain%20within%20SPDX%20Files.md ) : * 1. The SPDX format already already

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-28 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, Just to take a step back for a minute: requesting some kind of generic public domain dedication be added to the SPDX License List has come up a few times. We wrote up this explanation to address this (so we didn't have to repeat it!). See

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-28 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 8:26 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 27. 03. 24 v 5:32 odp. David Foster napsal(a): > > Since the US copyright term limits encompass those of most other countries > (which some exceptions below†). I could also see advertising a work as in > the Public Domain for *all known

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-28 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 27. 03. 24 v 5:32 odp. David Foster napsal(a): Since the US copyright term limits encompass those of most other countries (which some exceptions below†). I could also see advertising a work as in the Public Domain for *all known countries*, which is what the deed for CC Public Domain Mark

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-27 Thread David Foster
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:24 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 26. 03. 24 v 3:27 odp. David Foster napsal(a): > >> What SPDX license should I use to mark such a work believed to be in the >> public domain? > > ... public domain in specific country. Most of the works I'm trying to tag

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-27 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 26. 03. 24 v 3:27 odp. David Foster napsal(a): What SPDX license should I use to mark such a work believed to be in the public domain? ... public domain in specific country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths While US has Life+70years. In Kosovo the

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-26 Thread Warner Losh
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:43 PM Richard Fontana wrote: > Ah that's a good point. I wonder if the language could be tweaked a > bit to cover the "creative but out of copyright" case, but I'm not > sure it's worthwhile. > > In Fedora's use of SPDX expressions, I think there is no situation > that

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-26 Thread Richard Fontana
Ah that's a good point. I wonder if the language could be tweaked a bit to cover the "creative but out of copyright" case, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile. In Fedora's use of SPDX expressions, I think there is no situation that would necessitate an SPDX identifier covering some out-of-copyright

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-26 Thread David Foster
The proposed license identifier Not-Copyrightable ( https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2294 ) has the following text: The material covered by this statement is not creative or original, is trivial and non-expressive, and is believed to be non-copyrightable and in the public domain in

Re: SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-26 Thread Richard Fontana
I submitted the following issue to add a "license" identifier that could be used in this situation: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2294 (as a LicenseRef- this is already being used in the Fedora project). I think the problem with the Public Domain Mark is that it's not a

SPDX license for Public Domain works?

2024-03-26 Thread David Foster
Let's say I have a work like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which I believe to be in the public domain. *What SPDX license should I use to mark such a work believed to be in the public domain?* At first I thought CC-PDDC ( Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and Certification (