From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DUEL support
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47413200.9020201@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071119064833.GA31161@janus.mylan>
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 somme countries, for sure France, it is
not possible for an author to entirely disclaim copyright moral rights,
so putting something in the public dommain can be a legally dubious
notion. 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-19 6:50 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 [this message]
2007-11-19 8:55 ` Sergei Golubchik
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