Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> writes: > My understanding is that this is a vexed question: the actual > possibility for an author to voluntarily place a work into the public > domain is controversial. The same could be said about releasing software under any license that haven't been tested multiple times in courts in several jurisdictions. Which is basically all of FOSS. So I'm not compelled by that argument. > Some people [claim] that this is possible, one such person is, indeed, > DJB. He is not alone: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/xe/xe.1.en.html#LICENSE Tinysshd: https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh?tab=License-1-ov-file There are countless more. I'm not sure it matters a lot that only one or a few persons are releasing works this way. The same could be same for rarely used licenses too. /Simon
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