Re: DEP5 public-domain Question

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:19:46PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> So what to put in the Copyright field? It's a required one.

I'd do something like this:

    Copyright: not applicable
    License: public-domain
     This work was created by the government of the United States of
     America without any of the usual attempts to circumvent the
     policy that all such works are without copyright. It is therefore
     in the public domain. See http://... for information of how
     the work was created.

Or like this:

    Copyright: nobody
    License: public-domain
     The authors of this work live in a jurisdiction where the
     concept of public domain actually exists, and have gone through
     all the necessary steps to put the work into the public domain.
     These steps are document at http://... Thus, the usual
     misunderstanding that something is in the public domain,
     even though it isn't, do not apply. Yay.

Or even like this:

    Copyright: no-one
    License: public-domain
     This was created by unknown people across unknown aeons, and
     changed and updated by lots of more people. It was sung by
     medieval bards, and touched by that Shakespeare dude, and 
     possibly even Mary Queen of Scots. Who knows? Nobody knows,
     not even the Shadow knows! There is no evil lurking in the
     minds of anyone here. 
     .
     This work is therefore not copyrighted by anyone, and is as 
     much in the public domain as anything can be. Truly, utterly,
     totally. Be happy.

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