Re: Copyright of console illustrations

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:18:52 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
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Francesco Poli <[email protected]> writes:

> My understanding is that this is a vexed question: the actual
> possibility for an author to voluntarily place a work into the public
> domain is controversial.

The same could be said about releasing software under any license that
haven't been tested multiple times in courts in several jurisdictions.
Which is basically all of FOSS.  So I'm not compelled by that argument.

> Some people [claim] that this is possible, one such person is, indeed,
> DJB.

He is not alone:

https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/xe/xe.1.en.html#LICENSE

Tinysshd:

https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh?tab=License-1-ov-file

There are countless more.  I'm not sure it matters a lot that only one
or a few persons are releasing works this way.  The same could be same
for rarely used licenses too.

/Simon

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