Re: Don't put your software in the public domain

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Don't put your software in the public domain
Date	2016-06-02 22:04 +1000
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:41 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html
>>
>>  From that:
>>> It might be ruled to create a global licence for unrestricted use. That
>>  > licence might or might not then be adjudicated to be revocable by
>>  > subsequent copyright owners (heirs, divorcing spouses, creditors).
>>
>> If that's possible, then could said heirs, divorcing spouses
>> and creditors also revoke supposedly permanent rights granted
>> under an explicit licence? Or is putting the word "irrevocable"
>> in the licence enough to prevent that?
>
> Ask a real lawyer :-)
>
> This is why we should use licences that have been written and vetted by
> actual lawyers. They're the experts.

I honestly don't see why people want to put their code into the public
domain, when the MIT license is pretty close to that anyway. What's
the point?

ChrisA

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Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-02 00:59 +1000
  Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-01 18:44 +0300
  Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 13:45 -0700
    Re: Don't put your software in the public domain John Wong <gokoproject@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 17:00 -0400
      Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-02 13:38 +1000
    Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-02 13:43 +1000
  Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-02 18:41 +1200
    Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-02 21:56 +1000
      Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 22:04 +1000
        Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-02 15:26 +0300
          Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 18:11 -0700
    Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2016-06-02 13:52 +0100
    Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-03 19:53 +1000
      Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 07:14 -0600
        Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-04 12:02 +1000
          Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-04 23:46 -0400
      Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 09:15 -0700
        Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-06-03 21:58 +0100
          Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 18:10 -0700
            Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 09:04 +0100
          Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-04 12:28 +1000
            Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-06-06 06:54 +0100
              Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2016-06-06 13:36 +0100
              Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-07 01:59 +1000
          Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 08:24 +0100
            Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-04 11:24 +0300
              Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-06-04 15:12 -0400
                Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-05 00:26 +0300
        Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-04 12:12 +1000
        Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 08:20 +0100

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