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Re: Copyright of console illustrations



Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net> writes:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:47:39 +0200
> "Andrea Pappacoda" <tachi@debian.org> wrote:
>
>>     License:   public-domain
>
> As a rule of thumb, nothing is actually public domain unless it's very old.
> There are licenses that attempt to replicate public domain, but it is not
> possible to simply state you release something into public domain--at least not
> in EU or US.

Do you have any reference explaining that claim?

My perception is that there are frequent current publications of public
domain content, including stuff from NIST based on this "license":

https://spdx.org/licenses/NIST-PD.html

Another example are DJB's libraries, for example lib25519:
https://lib25519.cr.yp.to/license.html

/Simon

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