Probably not. It would be a douche move in rank with
patent trolling, and you would probably be less like
to win. More likely is that people make proprietary
forks and do not release the source code.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:59:08 -0200
Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
Received on Wed Dec 23 2015 - 23:05:01 CET