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

[Lawrence Rosen]

Russ Nelson asked:
> Larry, have you ever been driving over a bridge that collapsed?

Not that I can recall. :-) Out of fear of that very result, though, I
support increased infrastructure spending by our government.

But I don't stress out every time I drive over a bridge or when I use open
source software that is owned by an individual who wants to reserve her
moral rights. Indeed, I respect moral rights in the ways that I license and
use open source software and I advise respectful attribution whenever
appropriate. Does the protection of moral rights require anything onerous of
you?

Best,

/Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:43 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public
domain?

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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