Don't put your software in the public domain
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jun 2 07:56:44 EDT 2016
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.
--
Steven
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