RE: Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version 1.2 release candidate 1!

I expect some already has been sued..

.. and as others have pointed out if you don't explicitly release into the
public domain it has an implicit copyright slapped on it in law.

From what I can see the BSD licences are the nearest thing to public domain
you can get whilst still acknowledging authorship.

 

Dave

 

 

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kerravon86
Sent: 10 October 2010 22:42
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Subject: [H390-VM] Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version
1.2 release candidate 1!

 

  

--- In [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> , "Dave"
<dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:
>
> It has some disclaimers that may help if some one 
> says you gave them the
> code for a purpose and then claim its not fit for the purpose.

I'd like to see the day someone attempts to claim
that about public domain code.

Regardless, you can add disclaimers to your code
without slapping the copyright on it.

BFN. Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:[email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
> kerravon86
> Sent: 10 October 2010 12:41
> To: [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> 
> Subject: [H390-VM] Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version
> 1.2 release candidate 1!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> , "Dave"
> <dave.g4ugm@> wrote:
> >
> > If you want to grant as many rights as possible, and 
> > yet protect yourself a little then I suggest BSD.
> 
> Protect from what?
> 
> BSD just ensures that you get creditted at some
> level for your work.
> 
> And then of course, if you don't think you got
> creditted sufficiently, you are free to take the
> user to court.
> 
> So to protect the user (ie developer) from the
> fear of courts, I use public domain. Not possible
> for me to take someone to court. I'm no longer
> the owner. The public is.
> 
> I don't consider the job to be done until it's in
> the public domain. So e.g. we'll eventually have
> an unrestricted C compiler for MVS (GCC) in another 
> 140 years or thereabouts, when the copyright expires.
> 
> PDPCLIB doesn't require the 140 year wait.
> 
> BFN. Paul.
>