Public Domain ( was Re: Full Text Search w/ MySQL)

[Ian Holsman]

On 03/08/2006, at 10:42 PM, Andrew Durdin wrote:  the code in the paper is released into the public domain, so there's nothing stopping any interested person from taking it and developing it into something more suited for general searching. Andrew This isn't directed at you, or your paper Andrew. <rant> I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but can you (and others) not put things in the public domain? Go have a look at http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/GL15a.pdf  It's 2 pages, and VERY light reading, written by a lawyer and a expert on Open Source Licenses. To quote the paper: This “Give-It-Away” license provides no protection for anyone if the donated software causes  harm. ie.. even if you didn't mean it, if I used a piece of public domain code in a app I write and it fails, i can still go after the person who wrote it and sue them. </rant> thanks.. that makes my chest feel much lighter. -- Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://economy-chat.com It's what the economists talk about --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---