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Re: license for patch?



Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 03:34 PM, Henning Makholm wrote:

> > author to explicitly disclaim copyright (i.e. make it "public domain").

> > A possible statement would be
> > ...
> > | royalty-free, non-exclusive, world-wide license to any copyright on

> That's not public domain, that's just a very permissive copyright 
> license.

Thence the quotes around "public domain". I think that German law does
not recognize "public domain" as a state a work can be placed in
explicitly. Therefore I did not suggest simply "This work is in the
public domain".

-- 
Henning Makholm   "I didn't even know you *could* kill chocolate ice-cream!"



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