Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package
- To: Moshe Piekarski <moshep@melachim.net>
- Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package
- From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 12:51:07 +0100
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Moshe Piekarski writes ("Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package"):
> The copyright holder made a statement on Facebook chat that he considers
> the code to be in the public domain. Is that enough for me to consider
> it such?
While legally in some jurisdictions there is no such thing as public
domain, I think the intent of the copyright holder - to grant very
broad permissions, certainly broad enough for Debian - is clear.
There is a difficulty with how we would provide evidence of this
statement if it came to that. Can you put a transcript and/or
(hopefully fairly small) screenshot into the source package ?
I don't use Facebook, so I will ask: How do you know that the Facebook
user in question is the same person as the copyright holder ?
Ian.
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