Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

[Tom Callaway]

On 09/07/2011 02:35 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> I'd like to work some material onto our web site confirming that
> software in the public domain (in the copyright-related sense used in
> the United States, which we would make clear) is open source.

For what it is worth, I wish you would not do so. Public Domain across
international lines is incredibly complicated and painful enough,
putting it on the OSI pages will amount to a sort of endorsement of it,
when this will simply create more heartburn when individuals in
countries who cannot legally abandon their copyright attempt to do so.

If you must endorse something similar, consider explicitly stating that
individuals interested in putting a work into the public domain should
instead consider the Creative Commons Zero license, as that accomplishes
the same end result without the legal and international complications.

~tom

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