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Re: What to do with sources that lack a copyright



On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> Also in the sources:

> ** The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of
> ** a legal notice, here is a blessing:

IIRC, this is not legally valid; the author must explicitly assign his
copyrights to the public domain, or provide users with a license -- simply
disclaiming /his/ copyright does not give /us/ any rights.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer



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