[fpc-devel] DOS GUI

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Thu Jan 16 16:17:40 CET 2014


On 16 Jan 2014, at 16:11, Travis Siegel wrote:

> The only problem with the whole public domain thing is that it's not  
> as easy to donate things to public domain as one thinks.  Beats me  
> why, but there's a whole legal thing, apparently, you can't just say  
> I donate this code to the public domain, and then folks can do what  
> they like with it.  You'd think they could, but I've seen legal  
> arguments, entire discussion groups, and even whole web sites  
> devoted to the issue of what constitutes public domain, and  
> apparently, things that are still in copyright (regardless of author  
> intent) can't actually be given to the public domain (go figure).

You can always use the CC0 license: https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/


Jonas



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