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Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/24 Kahunapule Michael Johnson <span
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
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<pre>2009/4/24 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com" target="_blank"><dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com></a>:
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<pre>2009/4/22 Jonathan Marsden <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jmarsden@fastmail.fm" target="_blank"><jmarsden@fastmail.fm></a>:
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<pre>One quick first impression: there are still a few files in the RC2 tarball
that
licencecheck -r *
src/modules/common/sapphire.cpp: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
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<pre>last email is about src/utilfuns/win32/dirent.cpp: UNKNOWN
not sapphire.cpp
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I wrote sapphire.cpp and dedicated it to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.<br>
(Just to remove all doubt.)<br>
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Are you from US? If yes, there is no more doubt.<br>
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Yes, I am from the U. S. A., a citizen of the U. S. A., and was
resident in the U. S. A. when I wrote that and dedicated it to the
Public Domain. (I'm currently residing in Papua New Guinea, and it
could work from here, too.) As I'm the author and the only one with a
possibility of a claim of legal standing on claiming copyright on that
work (which is actually not even possible, now), and I have no interest
in making such a claim (which would essentially make a liar out of me),
I think you can rest easy about that.<br>
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<div>Please see forwarded message below. And please consider using<br>
CC0 for this or other works which you kindly dedicate to public domain.<br>
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CC0 is redundant and unnecessary. The repeated, consistent, and clear
dedication of that code to the Public Domain is enough. Copyright
claims in other jurisdictions would fail, given the nature of the
current treaties that recognize the copyright status of a work in its
country of origin. However, I have no objection to tagging sapphire.cpp
with a link to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/</a>
if this helps get a project using the code into Debian by removing
doubt about its status in other places.<br>
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Shalom,<br>
Michael Paul Johnson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kahunapule.org">http://kahunapule.org</a><br>
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