Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon Mar 17 06:02:19 UTC 2003


Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. scripsit:

> Leaving aside the questions regarding the legal viability of a
> public dedication of software, I think it is rather trivial for a specific
> programmer to *license* his/her software under terms that achieve the same
> ends as a push into the public domain (and, perhaps, the use of a
> programming language like Perl...or one that rendered reverse engineering
> trivial, if source code were not easily accessible to the end-user).  

Fair enough, but the federal government employee doesn't have that option.
(Admittedly, someone else can do it for him.)

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