[darcs-users] OT: Freedom and copyrights

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Apr 7 21:33:01 UTC 2006


> I have read that some people are concerned about some one copyrighting
> public domain work and pretending to own the rights to it completely,

I fully agree.  The exact significance of public domain depends on the
country you're in, while the meaning of the three-clause BSD and MIT/X11
licenses is fairly uniform in all signatories of the Berne convention.
Hence, three-clause BSD or MIT/X11 is preferable to public domain
whenever a copyleft license is not required.

(Please do *not* use the four-clause BSD license.)

                                        Juliusz




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