[fpc-devel] DOS GUI

Nikolay Nikolov nickysn at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 16 21:19:31 CET 2014


On 01/16/2014 05:17 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> 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/
...or WTFPL :)

http://www.wtfpl.net/about/

Nikolay



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