On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 13:22, Carson Chittom wrote: > This is pretty minor, but: > > 1. I just noticed that both grdc.c and grdc.6 (in src/games/grdc) > say "Copyright 2002 Amos Shapir. Public domain." The US > Copyright Office says[1], essentially, that copyright and public > domain are mutually exclusive categories. > > 2. I found a message from Theo in the archives from 2003[2] listing > grdc as one of the items of which the license was clarified > during an audit.
In this case, the text is somewhat misleading, but means Amos wrote it, but presumably disavowed the copyright that was once held. > 3. I vaguely remember that it may not be possible to place > something in the public domain in some countries. We don't care about that. I suppose people in such countries would not be able to contribute public domain code, but that's their problem, not ours.
