domain of public domain license

David Isaac aisaac0 at verizon.net
Tue Apr 12 14:54:12 EDT 2005


Questions arose on the docutils-develop list
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7032080&forum_id=8812 
as to the applicability of the public domain license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
outside of the US.  Specifically it was suggested that 
certain rights cannot be given away this way in France and 
Germany, and that these rights may or may not be relevant to 
the intent of the license.  Question #1: is the CC Public 
Domain license able to accomplish its intent outside the US 
and specifically in France and Germany?

A secondary matter arose: the public domain license contains 
no disclaimer, in contrast e.g. to the GPL.  So question#2:
shouldn't the CC Public Domain license include a disclaimer,
or is there something about the public domain that makes 
this irrelevant even for identifiable authors?

Thank you,
Alan Isaac

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