[License-review] Approval Request: Free Public License 1.0.0

[John Cowan]

Rick Moen scripsit:

> Because copyright as a legal reality cannot be finessed away, code
> recipients benefit greatly from knowing what copyright encumbrance
> exists and what year it arose (thus, what year it will cease to exist),
> and what licence terms the stakeholder specified.  

While I agree with the general tenor of your criticism, I'd like to
point out that we have no idea when, if ever, copyright will cease to
exist on any post-1923 work, and some reason to think it never will.
If anything, this makes your point stronger: licensed but unmarked
code is permanently tainted unless the copyright owner can be found,
and should never be loose in the wild.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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The theory that a single catastrophic event may have been responsible
has been strengthened by the recent discovery of a worldwide layer of
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