On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:51:12PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > > > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > > > you say, public domain. > > in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can give away any copyright. > > the european copyrights are different. you can't give away any copyright > > even if you want to do so. > Yup. Mexico is like Europe. However, you can istribute something with no > conditions, or simply specify you can do as you best wish with it, which > is equivalent to giving away the copyright. But the wording matters. To the best of my (limited) knowledge, the word "uncopyrighted" does not carry the legal meaning of "public domain" anywhere that English is used as the language of law; this means there is legal ambiguity surrounding any code distributed with this "license", and we expose our users and distributors to legal risk if we assume it's equivalent to public domain. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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