Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: alt.os.development Subject: Re: z/PDOS-generic Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 14:27:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 14:27:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="15915"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Xref: csiph.com alt.os.development:18721 In article , George Neuner wrote: >On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:14:13 +0800, "Paul Edwards" > wrote: > >>"BGB" wrote in message >>news:vaoach$3l2k0$1@dont-email.me... >> >>> AFAIK, whether declaring something as public domain is legally >>> recognized depends on jurisdiction. I think this is why CC0 exists. >> >>And if you believe that, then you're welcome to say that this >>is public domain, but you may follow the CC0 license instead >>if you wish. > >BGB is correct: not all countries recognize the notion of "public >domain". > >In WIPO convention countries it generally is possible to release a >work under a license that explicitly grants all rights, but the result >is not quite the same as placing the work in public domain. Without a >legal notion of "public domain" it is not possible for an author to >give up the rights afforded by the (automatic) Berne convention >copyright. > >[Of course every country is a WIPO or Berne signatory ... but most >recognize one or both conventions.] > >So if you really want a work to be freely usable anywhere in the >world, you can declare it as "public domain" for those countries that >recognize that notion ... but for everywhere else you have to provide >an alternative license that explicitly grants all rights. Please don't feed the troll. - Dan C.