From: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:17:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923231712.GB5424@imperium.ph> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F6FE819.1070004@bik-gmbh.de>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:28:41AM +0200, Florian Hars wrote:
> skaller wrote:
> >On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:48, Florian Hars wrote:
> >>Using anything else will just add to the confusion
> >What's wrong with plain old 'public domain'?
>
> In many parts of the world, including most of europe where many ocaml
> users live, about the only way for an author to release something he has
> written into the public domain is to have died seventy years ago. This
> may cause a significant slowdown of the development of a library.
>
Really? An author may not *voluntarily* release his or her own work into
the public domain? I don't see how that may be so. It is certainly not
true under US copyright law, nor is it the doctrine of the Berne
Convention. I was under the impression that possession of the copyright
to a particular work implies you also have the full and unlimited power
to license your work as you see fit.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 14:37 [Caml-list] date manipulation library Alan Schmitt
2003-09-15 14:48 ` Antoine Schweitzer-Chaput
2003-09-15 15:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-09-15 15:40 ` Alan Schmitt
2003-09-15 16:38 ` David Brown
2003-09-15 15:22 ` Julien Signoles
2003-09-15 18:34 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-15 18:45 ` Maxence Guesdon
2003-09-15 23:27 ` Julien Signoles
2003-09-16 7:20 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-16 7:32 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-09-16 8:29 ` Benjamin Geer
2003-09-16 18:21 ` [Caml-list] Will Emacs camldebug-mode need an update for 3.07? Mattias Waldau
2003-09-15 15:25 ` [Caml-list] date manipulation library Matthieu Sozeau
2003-09-17 7:57 ` Pierre Weis
2003-09-17 8:24 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-09-17 15:17 ` Pierre Weis
2003-09-19 14:48 ` [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses (Was: date manipulation library) Florian Hars
2003-09-20 14:22 ` [Caml-list] " Pierre Weis
2003-09-20 18:42 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2003-09-21 16:33 ` Richard Jones
2003-09-23 6:28 ` [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses Florian Hars
2003-09-23 23:17 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla [this message]
2003-09-23 23:29 ` Michael Beach
2003-09-17 9:19 ` [Caml-list] date manipulation library Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-17 15:28 ` Pierre Weis
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