Hello Terence, in http://bugs.debian.org/750643 I wrote:
>It would really be easier for everyone if Antlr itself would say, >for example: > >“In countries where the Public Domain status of the work may not be >valid, the authors grant a copyright licence to the general public to >deal in the work without restriction and permission to sublicence >derivates under the terms of any (OSI approved) Open Source licence.” (Please see there for the larger context.) I’m writing here since we have two problems: • Contributions of most EU citizens cannot be Public Domain • Public Domain does not really work across country boundaries unlike copyright licences, which are harmonised by the Berne Convention Would you be willing to (retroactively; but no need to make new releases for this, just answer and maybe PGP-sign) add this to Antlr? I’m especially concerned about Antlr 2.7.7 which my cow- orkers use in a project, but I think the general public would benefit from this applying to all versions of it. (Are there other major authors of code in Antlr? On the other hand, I was being told that a US American can take PD work and, as long as he has copyright on a part of it, licence the larger work any way they see fit, so a licence from the one majority author is probably fine too.) Please keep the Debian bugtracker in Cc so we have a record of this. Thanks in advance, //mirabilos -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
