Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual instance where some
code released as "public domain" caused trouble for citizens (from
whatever country) who copied it?
2015-12-23 19:51 GMT-02:00 Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr_AT_gmail.com>:
> Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual instance where some code
> released as "public domain" caused trouble for citizens (from whatever
> country) who copied it?
>
> 2015-12-23 19:13 GMT-02:00 Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se>:
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:03:11 +0000
>> mpu <quentin_AT_c9x.me> wrote:
>>
>> > quentin_AT_c9x.me (mpu) wrote:
>> > > Hi folks,
>> > >
>> > > I wrote some tools to design bitmap fonts. Maybe you'll
>> > > be interested.
>> > >
>> > > http://github.com/mpu/fnt/
>> >
>> > I feel bad that this whole discussion ended up being about
>> > legal matters. Because some people seem unable to simply
>> > copy-paste 200 lines of code when it does not have a
>> > license, I put one in the Github repo.
>>
>> You should not feel bad about that. The silence otherwise
>> and combined with this discussion probably indicates that
>> we are interested, at least I am, and have not technical
>> complaints.
>>
>> >
>> > I think I'm starting to understand __20h__'s "copy me if
>> > you can", maybe it should be "copy me if you dare".
>>
>> "copy me if you can" is an informal license, which is
>> actually worse then public domain. Best just the have a
>> script that creates a new project and automatically
>> puts the MIT license on it. Perhaps call it gitinit.
>>
>> >
>> > To be honest I feel a bit stupid putting a license on four
>> > glorified while loops. I'm not sure what is the limit for
>> > requiring a license, do we need to license awk one-liners
>> > when we paste them on IRC? If not, what was the problem
>> > with my repository. The four files provided as source are
>> > really almost one-liners.
>>
>> A safe but is that anything more than hello world (GNU's
>> implementation should be considered much more) is probably
>> enough for a license. It is not only the triviality that
>> acyually needs to be considered, it is the originality too.
>>
>> >
>> > I wonder if the people who just complained about (lack of)
>> > licensing are really concerned about it or are just of the
>> > same kind of people that find it unacceptable to write
>> > (x - 'a') in C.
>>
>> What is wrong with (x - 'a')? In what context. But I think
>> people care about the licensing because it would really
>> suck to have to detail with copyright infringement issues
>>
>> >
>> > Hopefully we can now talk about what I submitted.
>>
>> It looks great!
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > -- mpu
>> >
>>
>
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