Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > Il 07/05/2013 10:26, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto: >> I suspected that something like this was in the background, but what I >> didn't understand was: why single out the public domain, as the GPL >> itself is in the exact same bucket, generally speaking. > > I think because public domain is a concept that _does_ exist in these > countries, but it is just the set of works that satisfy certain > conditions (e.g. 70 years passed from the author's death) rather than > something you can put your work in. > > At some point you have to make some assumptions, and "the GPL works" is > one of them.
BTW, xgettext is stupid and very difficult to make not put this in here. I still need to find some time to work that out. There's an option that lets you say, "copyrighted by so-and-so" but that's not what we need. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Paolo
