On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed > |at the public domain.
"Placing in the public domain" is not a valid concept in all jurisdictions. It's not always possible to abandon copyright. It's probably better to say explicitly what freedoms you intend to grant. I currently use this license, myself: -- Copyright 2002 Richard Braakman -- -- You may freely use, modify, and distribute this software, as well as -- modified versions and derived works of this software, but at your own -- risk. NO WARRANTY is given; not even the implied warranty of -- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. ---- Note that the warranty disclaimer is "nice try, but no banana" in some places, but for most of them this is better than nothing. Adding a "to the extend permitted by applicable law" phrase might make it a bit stronger in jurisdictions where disclaiming slightly too much warranty would make the whole disclaimer invalid. (Note: most of what I said here is based on discussions on IRC. This helps to get viewpoints from many different countries, but it might be somewhat, um, inaccurate in a legal sense :-) I have enough confidence in the result to actually use this licesne, though.) Richard Braakman
