On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:51:31AM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > I would be happy to release any copyright that I might share in this > file under e.g. a Creative Commons Attribution licence, but I > am not confident that Creative Commons is suitable for a compilation > of samples. I am not even sure that single-sentence pangrams > fall under copyright legislation: they are at the very short end of > what might count as a work of authorship. > > If it had been a piece of example code, I would have simply added the line > > License: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/short-license.html > > which links to a page that explains my political reluctance to add > formal copyright licences to work that is probably far too short and > trivial to fall under copyright legislation.
Thanks a lot for your detailed email. I think the short-license page nicely explains both your motivation and how to interpret your intention in terms of Free Software licenses, so I'll see if I can run with that. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140228164551.gi218...@zedat.fu-berlin.de
