Re: how to properly specify "Public Domain"?
JC Helary <jch.helary@free.fr> wrote:
> Public domain is clearly defined in copyright law, and that should be
> so in any country that has any kind of copyright law.
I fear there are a couple of countries that didn't obey your "should".
> Copyright only
> extends to a certain period of time after which it does not exist
> anymore.
That idea probably exists everywhere, but you can't say "treat this file
as if I died 70 years ago" in the EU, AFAIK.
And all that doesn't answer my question: Whether it's debian-legal's
consensus that "This file is in the public domain" grants us enough
rights to distribute it in main, or non-free, or not at all.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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