On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Artur Grabowski wrote:
> Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "public domain" is a meaningless term in many countries (it doesn't have
> any meaning in courts, which in turn means that you keep all the rights
> that copyright law gives you).
>
> In many countries you can't give up the right to be recognized as the
> author even if you want to.
Like in my country. But that does not mean I have to use permissive licenses,
that means there is a error in the law. Copyright should be optional; It
should be assigned automaticly, but I also should be able to take
distance of (abandon) copyright. It sucks that anyone who wants to put
there work in public domain has to use a license text instead. So, I've
written the Dutch ministry of justice about it. Things should be solved
on the right place; that is where the law is. Permissive licenses are
sometimes used as a kind of nasty workaround (hack) for putting things
effectively in public domain (!by those who don't care about keeping
copyright!).
*sigh* whatever.. I guess I'm just dutchman.. or so.. My minimalism
is probably somewhat obsessive:)
> > BTW, how many times is the BSD license in the source repository? I think
> > it is a filthiness of "$ head [sourcefile]".
>
> I think it's pretty. Makes the code feel like home.
-_-
