On 08/14/2012 11:52 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > Fedora used to spend a lot of time stressing out over this question, but > recently, after counsel with Red Hat Legal, we concluded that if someone > is explicitly and clearly abandoning their copyright on a work (as in > CC-0, for example), treating that work in good faith as being in the > public domain presented a very minimal amount of risk, especially since > such a declaration, were it to go to trial, would likely limit the > effectiveness of the copyright "holder" suing for infringement.
CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) actually has an explicit license fallback in section 3, for cases where the PD dedication fails. I would be interested to hear if the counsel's conclusion would hold without such fallback. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
