[Novalug] Public Domain [was Re: Fun with bash]

[Matt Good]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:51 -0500, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> Just to clarify, I'm not saying you can't make your license as liberal
> and unconstraining as you please. I'm just repeating what the lawyers
> told me, that that's not the same as public domain.

Stanford has a good reference online for Copyright & Fair Use.  See
point 3 in this section on the public domain:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/8-a.html

According to that the copyright owner (this may not be the original
author) can dedicate a work to the public domain.  This is consistent
with all information I've seen regarding public domain works under U.S.
law.  I'm not sure how laws in other parts of the world handle this.

-- Matt Good