Re: [Qemu-devel] [GitHub] [Qemu-commits] [qemu/qemu] ecdffb: tcg/ppc: Remove unused s_bits variable

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 20/11/2012 10:59, malc ha scritto:
>>>> > >> 
>>>> > >> "Public domain" is not a valid copyright header/license grant.
>>> > >
>>> > > Sez who?
>> > 
> Sez who was asked in response to "Is not a valid copyright/license grant."
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_the_public_domain

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Under copyright law, most authors own the rights to limit use of their
works. However, not all works fit this description. Exceptions include
works in the public domain, which are old enough that either their
author is long dead or it was created during a time when copyright was
not assigned automatically. Some works created by the government or in
other countries are also in the public domain.

Sometimes people wish for a piece of their own work to be freely
available to everyone to use with no strings attached, and put the work
in the public domain. This isn't very hard to do — the copyright holder
merely has to make a statement that they release all rights to the work.
Once this irrevocable act is complete they no longer have any power over
how the work is used since it is then owned by the public as a whole.

It is controversial, however, whether it is possible for a copyright
holder to truly abandon the copyright of their work. [...] It is
certainly true that under some jurisdictions, it is impossible to
release moral rights. For example the German Copyright Law
(Urheberrechtsgesetz) prevents the transferability of copyrights in §29
UrhG so that an abdication isn't possible as well, though that is not
the case in the United States. [...]

Some scholars of copyright law, including Lawrence Lessig, agree that it
is difficult to put works in the public domain, but not impossible. The
Creative Commons website, for example, released a copyright waiver in
2009 called CC0. It is important to maintain that this is a copyright
waiver and not a public domain release.
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>> FSF says
> 
> And what it says about CC0 or whatnot is utterly irrelevent.

Surely their lawyers are better at copyright law than malc.

Besides, perhaps commit b04df2a (wavcapture: Use stdio instead of
QEMUFile, 2011-09-20) was not released in the public domain.

Please stop playing FUD-lawyer.

Paolo