On 13 March 2010 19:34, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
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In the meantime, here is the verbiage I use on my code; I'm not completely convinced it will actually work, but you might want to adopt it as well:
/*
Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law)
The person or persons who have associated their work with this
document (the "Dedicators") hereby dedicate whatever copyright they
may have in the work of authorship herein (the "Work") to the
public domain.
Dedicators make this dedication for the benefit of the public at
large and to the detriment of Dedicators' heirs and successors.
Dedicators intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights
under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work.
Dedicators understand that such relinquishment of all rights
includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit
or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work.
Dedicators recognize that, once placed in the public domain, the
Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used,
modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any
purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including
by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.
*/
This sounds quite similar to the 'Creative Commons Zero' licence:
--
Jon Ingram