public domain question

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Tue Feb 1 14:31:12 EST 2005


Mike Linksvayer said:
> Greg London wrote:
>> technically, no computer code has become public domain yet.
>> Some programmers release their code under a license that
>> gives away 99.9% of the rights (BSD license, etc).
>> But the only way for something to be truly "public domain"
>> is for the copyright term to expire. (or if the code was written
>> before the 70's to have been published without registration or
>> a copyright notice. Now, copyright is automatic and impossible
>> to switch off.
>
> Impossible?  CC provides a mechanism
> http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain for you to do it.
>
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