[Neurodebian-devel] experimental OpenVibe package

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > 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.

are you sure?
my uneducated reference regarding government is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Government_works
Is there any reference for US citizens?

> 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.

thanks for the precious bits of clarifications ;)

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