On 06/03/2010 10:35 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> You might feel that way, but the simple fact is that French citizens can
> not abandon copyright (aka put works into the Public Domain). This is
> the only license that we've been given, but since it is not valid, we
> can't use it. Without a license, we cannot include this in Fedora,
> because we have none of the rights required for Free Software.
There are plenty of projects partly or entirely written by Europeans which
are supposedly "Public Domain", which all have this issue. A lot of that
code is already in Fedora. Even projects under the GPL or some other
copyright license may be incorporating such code, without even mentioning
it, since there's no requirement to mention use of public domain code. It
feels odd to single out one such project.
I am not in any way singling out one such project. If you have examples,
please highlight them, and we will address them as well.
~spot