From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T05:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:05:37 +0900, David Douthitt wrote:
>If you want the least restrictive "license" available, then your 
>work should be placed into the public domain. �Somehow, that doesn't 
>seem to be very popular....

Um, well, in European countries, it's not possible to surrender an author's rights. It's dubious as to whether or not US copyright law actually respects a "public domain" release, either. Finally, there are two other issues. One is the potential liability issue mentioned previously. Second is that even the BSD requires that the copyright statement be retained -- so "credit where due" is followed, at least in the source.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.07.10
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