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Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 19:18:55 +1000
Subject: Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3
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On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is such a thing as the public domain in the US, and there are works in
> it, but there isn't really such a thing as "placing a work" there
> voluntarily, as Grant says. A work either is or isn't in the public domain.
> The author has no choice in the matter.

Then what's copyright status on PEPs?

The nearest thing to "assigning to public domain" that works across
legislatures is probably CC0:

http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0

ChrisA