On 28 November 2012 01:37, marbux <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That way, you don't have to cram the snippet with legalese.
>
> I release all of my Lua code that I publish under the CC0 using the
> following snippet:
>
> "-- RIGHTS: This function's author, Paul E. Merrell, waives all
> copyright and related or neighboring rights to this function, pursuant
> to the Creative Commons CC0 Universal relinquishment of rights found
> at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/";
>
> Not as short as the Bit Conservation License reference, but close. :-)
>
>
Certainly the idea of having to include a wordy, ugly chunk of license text
for including a 4 or 5 line code snippet in your program (and maybe several
instances in one program) is quite unpleasant, and probably leads to
significant wheel re-invention.
My only worry with the most permissive licenses is... what if someone takes
your code, fixes one or two obvious bugs, and then re-releases it as their
own under a very restrictive license like the GPL - or even a commercial
license?
Having relinquished the copyright with e.g. CC0, would you then be unable
to fix those same bugs and release the updates to your own branch which you
created...?
Perhaps this would simply never happen since it'd be such a troll move, yet
requires some effort and knowledge.
Oisín
Copyright issues were a lot more simple in the U.S. until the U.S.
> ratified the Berne Convention (treaty) in 1988. Up until then, if
> copyright was not explicitly claimed in the work itself, along with
> the name, city, and state of the author, the work passed into the
> public domain automatically. Now even tweets and a child's note to
> another child sitting on the other side of the classroom are
> automatically copyrighted presumptively, with the copier bearing the
> burden of disproving the presumption.
>
> It's very bad law, grossly over-inclusive.
>
> BTW, to correct a misimpression in an earlier post, thorough research
> went into the CC0 waiver of rights and it is drafted to relinquish
> rights to the fullest extent allowed under any jurisdiction's law. It
> was drafted not to clash with any law. The odds of it being
> invalidated are slim to none, in my opinion. It's excellent legal
> draftsmanship and it relinquishes every copyright or neighboring right
> that can be relinquished wherever it may go. And it is as suitable for
> code as it is for any other "work" within the meaning of copyright
> law.
>
> All in my studied personal opinion, of course, a right to express that
> I regained when I resigned from the Bar Association and retired. This
> does not constitute legal advice, for which you should consult a
> lawyer licensed to practice.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul
>
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