Re: How best to declare something public domain
- From: James Harris <james.harris.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 10:09:43 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 8, 5:45 am, c...@xxxxxxxx (Richard Harter) wrote:
This may seem odd, but bear with me. On my web site I have sundry
articles on various algorithms. Quite frequently I will include
illustrative code. One such article was the ascending minima
algorithm for computing the minimum of a sliding window. It's a
rather pretty O(1) algorithm. The article includes a C
implementation.
Someone wrote, saying that it "great stuff" and asked "What license is
the code distributed under? I started to write back, "It's not under
any license - as far as I am concerned it's public domain." Then I
thought, how can I make it public domain. Futher, is that a wise
thing to do in this age of obsession over the ownership of
intellectual property.
From the other posts this sounds like a minefield. If it helps, I justnoticed that Creative Commons has a CC *zero* licence I'd not seen
before. It might be exactly what you are looking for. See
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Their other offerings may also help
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
James
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