Near Public Domain license

[David Woolley]

Jesse Hannah wrote:
> license, maybe also one waiving the copyright and permission notice 
> inclusion clause---would probably be the best way to do what you're 

Anyone exercising that waiver would compromise the distributility of the 
material they redistributed, because anyone receiving it would have to 
assume that, as very little software is out of copyright by reason of 
age, that it was copyright by an unknown person and that person had 
reserved all rights, and they would find it difficult to establish 
otherwise.

-- 
David Woolley
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