On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 21 h 20, the keyboard of Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've always understood that placing a (formerly/potentially) copyrighted > work "in the public domain" is a statement by the author that they are > giving up all copyright rights (if that's the correct phrase), In France and, I assume, in many other countries, it is almost impossible to put something in the public domain: you cannot completely give in your rights. You have to die first and even then it takes a long time after this. > anyone may use it in any way they please. For example, most US gov't > works are public domain, presumably because the US residents taxes paid > for them (yes, I know that's not universally true, that's why I wrote > "most"). I have at least one package (ncbi-tools6) whose sole licence is "This work is in the public domain"...
