[License-discuss] Becoming Public Domain After X Years

[Antoine Thomas]

maybe a combination of CC-0, and BSL?
-> After some time in BSL, the code would become CC-0 ?


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On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 04:56, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> An editing error on my part:  I meant to say "at common law" somewhere in
> that sentence, though the careful distinction between landed ("real")
> property and other property would be a giveaway to the knowledgeable.
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
>
>> John Cowan dixit:
>>
>> >but in general any property (except land) can be abandoned by any overt
>> act
>>
>> Maybe in America, but not in Europe.
>>
>> Public Domain is the absence of copyright protection, and a licence
>> only works when there is copyright protection. In at least some
>> countries it’s not permitted to relinquish copyright, and for that
>> reason you could use a permissive licence (such as MirBSD), or CC0
>> which licences the right to licence the work, after your time period.
>>
>> I think a licence statement that says “the first 10 years licence A,
>> then licence B” when both are OSI-approved (say first copyleft then
>> Ⓕ Copyfree) is automatically Open Source. (And one where only B is
>> OSI-approved will *eventually* become Open Source automatically.)
>>
>> bye,
>> //mirabilos
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