<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">John Cowan dixit:<br>
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>but in general any property (except land) can be abandoned by any overt act<br>
<br>
Maybe in America, but not in Europe.<br>
<br>
Public Domain is the absence of copyright protection, and a licence<br>
only works when there is copyright protection. In at least some<br>
countries it’s not permitted to relinquish copyright, and for that<br>
reason you could use a permissive licence (such as MirBSD), or CC0<br>
which licences the right to licence the work, after your time period.<br>
<br>
I think a licence statement that says “the first 10 years licence A,<br>
then licence B” when both are OSI-approved (say first copyleft then<br>
Ⓕ Copyfree) is automatically Open Source. (And one where only B is<br>
OSI-approved will *eventually* become Open Source automatically.)<br>
<br>
bye,<br>
//mirabilos<br>
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inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent<br>
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