Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-10-08 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Harry Percival wrote: >apologies for resurrecting a dead thread, but i came across this license >and was impressed: > >http://unlicense.org/ It seems to me that it's similar to the MIT License except without the benefit of having been written

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-10-08 Thread Ben Fields
If you want to relinquish copyright claims and push work into the public domain, code or otherwise, CC0 is a much more rigorous means to do so. See http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ for detail. Intent is very similar to unlicense. cheers Ben On Oct 8, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Doug Winter wrot

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-10-08 Thread Doug Winter
You can't just put stuff in the public domain unfortunately, it's all a very grey area.  Also this is very poorly drafted. If you put this statement in a file called UNLICENSE alongside your code then it would be pretty much meaningless in mo