Re: Re: most liberal license
If you want a public-domain-equivalent license, write something like this:
(Some credit goes to Anthony DeRobertis. I've been trying to refine
this; it would be nice to have a 'standard' one. Ideally we'd get a
'sounds good' from at least one common-law and at least one civil-law
lawyer.)
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I hereby grant to everyone (any person whatsoever) a perpetual,
irrevocable, royalty-free license to modify, use, copy, distribute,
perform, and/or sell this work (modified or unmodified); and to exercise
any other rights (present or future) regarding this work which are
exclusive to me (or my successors or heirs) under law, to the fullest
extent possible under the law.
It is my intent that this work be treated as if the work had entered the
public domain, or been ineligible for copyright. The license grant
above is designed to acheive this goal in as many jurisdictions as
possible. If it is possible, I dedicate this work to the public domain.
If it is possible, I relinquish my copyright in the work.
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There's additional language in the Creative Commons public domain
dedication which might be useful when adapted, because it spells out
"No, I really know what I'm doing!":
A dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large
and to the detriment of the Dedicator's heirs and successors. Dedicators
intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in
perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, whether
vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicator understand that such
relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all rights
to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work.
Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work
may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified,
built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial
or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not
yet been invented or conceived.
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Anyone else want to work on a 'public domain equivalent license'?
Hope this helps,
--Nathanael Nerode
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