Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Tony's test harness has been released into the public domain. >> >> AIUI that is considered legally problematic in some places, so he used >> the “CC0 public domain explanation”. Where releasing code to the >> public domain is valid, that is what that means; elsewhere, it is a >> license. It was probably the right choice to make it clear to >> everyone what their rights are. Doing that requires a long document, >> unfortunately. > > There is some FUD that circulates concerning content in the public > domain. IANAL but I have been told that even in non-PD jurisdictions > the likelihood is that PD would be treated as a "very permissive > copyright". I will not debate it further here. But even Debian > considers PD to be DFSG-free. :-)
Oh, I agree with this; I was just being stupidly pedantic about reproducing the license. > I could see things only getting more complex. Therefore I > have been working with Tony on this issue to simplify the situation. > - I have changed the license on my contributions to match the > project license. > - Tony changed the license on the one test harness PD file to match > the project license. > Those changes converged and simplified the number of licenses to the > one shared 2-clause license leaving only the unifdefall file with the > legacy 3-clause license. Much simpler. > > Additionally and most importantly Tony has now added a new file > COPYING containing the full and complete license for all works in the > project. Thanks for your excellent work! About bug severities, I think the piece I was missing was to use common sense. Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
