Re: Copyright of console illustrations
I don't know about the US, but in the EU there are certain rights that
you can't give up --- such as moral rights, which are much stronger in
the EU than in the US. This is one reason why Creative Commons has the
CC0 license, which is a reasonable attempt to put works into the
public domain where possible, and if it's not, provides a practically
equivalent do-what-thou-wilt license instead:
https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 12:23, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
>
> 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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