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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: public domain question
  • Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:41:33 -0800

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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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21




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