Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (214 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 20, 10 11:23:13 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:35:38 -0400
> Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > us who can't afford full time lawyers..., I wonder if WTFPL prevents
> > > patent sharks from hijacking your package?
>
> It does not. That's why I usually use it only for those trivial pieces of
> code that are obvious anyway. 

It actually make them patent sharks happy, instead of annoying them. :-)

> Basically the pieces of code that I would
> have licensed as "Public Domain". But unfortunately there is no such thing
> as "Public Domain" where I live IIUC, and there are lots of different
> definitions of "Public Domain" around the world.

Try Creative Commons CC0.

CC0 does the trick, by saying: in the public domain, where public
domain is possible, and otherwise it is to be handled as if it were 
in the public domain.

        cheers,
                JW-

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