Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

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.

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