dedicating your work to the public domain [was: Canonical Contributor Agreement]

[Nick Demou]

2010/11/25 Apollon Koutlidis <apollon at planewalk.net>:
> Για μικρά έργα όπου το code base και οι ιδέες που περιέχει έχουν (κατά
> την κρίση μου) μικρή σημασία / αντίκτυπο, προτιμώ να τα βγάζω στο public
> domain.

Αυτο το απόσπασμα σχετικά με το αν είναι δυνατό να "βγάλεις" κάτι στο
public domain μάλλον σε ενδιαφέρει:

"""[...] The debate was over whether one could dedicate one's
electronic postings to the public domain, and, if so, how might that
be accomplished, [...]? Participants were not sure that it was
possible to dedicate works to the public domain anymore, after the
Berne Implementation Act, Pub. L. No. 100-568, 102 Stat. 2853 (1988);
they were not sure how, if it were possible, one could accomplish it;
they could not agree on what words to use. None of these folks are
copyright naifs; both the original inquirer and most of the posters
offering views on this particular issue had substantial copyright
backgrounds. But, if 1000 sophisticated people with enormous copyright
expertise among them cannot over a two month period resolve this
simple a question, then the law has gotten way too complicated for any
purpose;"""

από ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον άρθρο της Jessica Litman σχετικά με τις
ανεπάρκειες της αμερικάνικης νομοθεσίας πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdlitman/papers/read.htm
http://www.webcitation.org/5ubGTNkOO