Re: licensing question for "nom.tam.fits"

[Kuno Woudt <kuno@frob.nl>]

Hello,

On 11/30/2012 02:01 PM, Florian Rothmaier wrote:
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> Dear Francesco,
>
> fortunately, the upstream author Thomas MyGlynn made a new release for
> which he added a statement that the code is in the public domain.
>
> In my debian package which can be found at
> http://mentors.debian.net/package/fits
> or
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/fits.git
> I chose the GPL-3 for the debian/* files but a guy from the debian-science
> mailing list suggested to put the Debian package under a less restrictive
> license.
>
> Thus my question is which license should be chosen in the case that
> the sources are in the public domain?

CC0 is the closest you can get to public domain, while still giving out 
a valid license for those jurisdictions where public domain doesn't work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

-- kuno / warp.