Re: DEP5 public-domain Question

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
> License: public-domain
>  <insert here the exact wording from upstream explaining why the work is
>  in the public domain>

> You do need some sort of statement about why the work is in the public
> domain, since that's a rather unusual status and requires some
> justification (such as that it's a US government work).

or just not copyrightable at all in many jurisdictions (factual data etc.) ;-)

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