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From: Sergei Golubchik <sergii@pisem.net>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DUEL support
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119085725.GA31909@janus.mylan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47413200.9020201@adacore.com>

Hi!

On Nov 19, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> 
> >Yes, according to the "GPL vs. public domain" file in the
> >distribution he was (though it was in 1993). But why would it matter,
> >he explicitly put his patch under public domain ?
> 
> One potential problem is that in some countries, for sure France, it
> is not possible for an author to entirely disclaim copyright moral
> rights, so putting something in the public domain can be a legally
> dubious notion.

Not really. An author cannot disclaim all rights, but he can disclaim
material rights, which is enough to re-release a software as GPL.

> And how do we know the patch is in the public domain even in the US
> without a signed document. A notice on a file means nothing legally.

There're signed documents too - I mean publications and PhD thesis where
the author says plain and clear that "Duel is public-domain software".

Regards
Sergei

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-19  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071116115303.GA18919@janus.mylan>
2007-11-17 20:11 ` Sergei Golubchik
2007-11-19  2:02   ` Jim Blandy
2007-11-19  6:46     ` Sergei Golubchik
2007-11-19  6:50       ` Robert Dewar
2007-11-19  8:55         ` Sergei Golubchik [this message]

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