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In article <79adnQkB3s0IXLTPnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
	Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> writes:
> On 09/06/2013 06:32 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <Z9CdnY0eHfJDnLTPnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>> 	Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 09/05/2013 08:14 AM, tburnxxx@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>> BSD or MIT would be the easiest and most string-free licenses.
>>>>
>>>> Does this work OK?  ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> (snip...)
>>>
>>> IANAL, but that looks fine.  Any statement of licensing beats "public domain".
> 
> Under US law, there are some landmine issues with statements of "this is 
> public domain".  Again, IANAL, but recalling conversations with the IP legal 
> folks at work (where we are absolutely forbidden to use anything that carries 
> such a label) you cannot simply declare something as "public domain".  Things 
> pass into this state naturally when copyright expires but I don't believe you 
> can place them there to start with.  So the fear is that you might start using 
> or deriving something from a creative work, only to have the author (or worse, 
> a third party) pop up and make a claim against you.  When/if that happens you 
> have absolutely no license, implied or otherwise, to fall back on as a defense.
> 
> Once more: IANAL and I may have mangled this explanation.  All I know is that 
> some very highly-paid IP lawyers have placed an utter ban on using code so 
> labeled.
 
Actually, it is the exact opposite.  Once you explicitly say something 
is "In the Public Domain" that becomes the fact of law and it can not
be reversed.  You relinquish all control over that particular piece of
IP.  It was Stallman's lack of understanding of this that resulted in
his original rant and gave us the GNU Public Virus.

bill
 

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much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 08:49 -0700
  Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available rzh_nocal@yahoo.com - 2013-09-03 12:02 -0700
    Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 12:17 -0700
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 17:20 -0700
        Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetelo@ask.me> - 2013-09-04 06:11 +0200
    Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 19:01 -0700
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2013-09-04 09:28 +0000
  Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 21:27 -0400
    Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 18:50 -0700
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2013-09-04 09:22 +0000
        Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2013-09-04 11:29 +0200
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 09:05 -0400
        Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-04 08:01 -0700
          Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 20:51 -0400
            Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-05 05:14 -0700
              Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2013-09-05 16:55 +0000
              Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 18:12 -0400
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available bill@server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2013-09-06 10:32 +0000
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-06 07:50 -0400
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available bill@server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2013-09-06 12:21 +0000
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetelo@ask.me> - 2013-09-06 18:18 +0200
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-06 18:10 -0400
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Tesseract <guard.squeeze.8421@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 19:28 -0700
        Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available gp2k00@gmail.com - 2013-09-04 21:56 -0700
  Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available rzh_nocal@yahoo.com - 2013-09-03 21:05 -0700
  Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Tesseract <guard.squeeze.8421@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 02:10 -0700
    Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2013-09-04 11:53 -0500
      Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-04 13:09 -0700
        Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2013-09-07 22:43 +0200
          Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available gp2k00@gmail.com - 2013-09-07 21:15 -0700
            Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2013-09-08 11:53 +0200
              Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2013-09-08 12:31 +0200
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-08 03:57 -0700
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2013-09-08 16:21 +0200
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available tburnxxx@gmail.com - 2013-09-08 07:46 -0700
                Re: much enhanced z-80 assembler now available gp2k00@gmail.com - 2013-09-18 09:59 -0700

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