<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:34 PM Langley, Stuart <<a href="mailto:Stuart.Langley@disney.com">Stuart.Langley@disney.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">
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<div>The issue this creates is that the author can’t make a valid transfer to the public domain. Transfers are not allowed. The author’s completely clear and unambiguous intent to transfer does not change that. The only option is to license sufficient rights.
Without a license, even if the author does not assert copyright, their heirs might.</div></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OSI has previously advised that "public domain" does not qualify as open source because exactly this sort of issue, varying in scope and consequence globally, prevents developers from being sure they have the necessary rights without consulting another person first. See <a href="https://opensource.org/node/878">https://opensource.org/node/878</a></div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i><br></i></div></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>