[Neurodebian-devel] experimental OpenVibe package

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On 08/08/2012 05:39 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote:
>>>  * I guess there could be more ;)
> 
>> The public domain incertitude is really an issue: AFAIK putting in the
>> public domain is equivalent to abandon copyright (maybe I am wrong), but
> 
> kinda but also -- does it claim absent responsibility for all the harm
> and suffering this software might cause???  that is why all the licenses
> have disclaimers (and thus it is important to have such a license), and
> only US government is allowed to "deposit" into public domain
> AFAIK ;)

Not only the US government -- US citizens too. Actually the US is doing
fine here, and the problem is the result of the world, where "public
domain" is not properly defined by the law. E.g. under Polish law
and in some other countries (France?) authors have "moral rights" which
they cannot wave away. For *portability* it's better to use a license,
e.g. CC-0.

Zbyszek