[License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

[Russ Nelson]

Larry, have you ever been driving over a bridge that collapsed?
-russ

Lawrence Rosen writes:
 > Russ, have you ever experienced that inferiority in actual open source software? 
 > 
 > /Larry (from my tablet and brief) 
 > 
 > Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >Oleksandr Gavenko writes:
 > > >       Moral Rights:
 > >
 > >Only some countries claim Moral Rights. And as you point out, this is
 > >very problemmatic for Open Source Software. We have traditionally held
 > >that a license is a license is a license, but it's clear that OSI
 > >Approved Open Source contributions from people who live in countries
 > >that claim Moral Rights is inferior to people who live in countries
 > >which don't.
 > >
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