Small but important correction. It is not permissible to claim a public-domain creation of another as "your own." There is no open-range, mustang copyright arrangement.
In the US, works of the US Government are "born" public-domain. Not others. Oddly, you as an individual in the US can't *put* a work into the public domain, but you can make a quit claim that forswears defense of any of the exclusive rights of you, the copyright holder. That does not in any way remove the copyright that the work was born having, however. But either way, one cannot assert any kind of property right over a work that is not yours (or of someone providing work for hire to you), whether public domain or not. -----Original Message----- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 23:51 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Licensing Issue Stefan, In order to "open source" something, you have to define what you mean by "open source". If you mean that anybody can do anything at all with the code including claim it as their own, then you mean to put it into the public domain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain>. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
