Hi Thorsten,Unfortunately I’m extremely busy and have two versions ahead of v2 so I really don’t care about it much anymore. What specifically would you need me to do? simply add a bit of language to the license page on the web? That I could do. T On Jul 10, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> 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
