John Cowan dixit: >but in general any property (except land) can be abandoned by any overt act
Maybe in America, but not in Europe. Public Domain is the absence of copyright protection, and a licence only works when there is copyright protection. In at least some countries it’s not permitted to relinquish copyright, and for that reason you could use a permissive licence (such as MirBSD), or CC0 which licences the right to licence the work, after your time period. I think a licence statement that says “the first 10 years licence A, then licence B” when both are OSI-approved (say first copyleft then Ⓕ Copyfree) is automatically Open Source. (And one where only B is OSI-approved will *eventually* become Open Source automatically.) bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜<asarch> The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is only measured by the success 18:35⎜<asarch> "Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
