From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T06:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:45:13AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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.

IANAL, but I believe that at least in the UK, the concept of putting a work
into the public domain is well defined.

Regards,

Brian.