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FS#7631 - Licenses: Public Domain

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alessio Bolognino (mOLOk) - Thursday, 19 July 2007, 01:53 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 21 December 2008, 02:29 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I think we should add PublicDomain in the licenses package.
A good definition can be found here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Sunday, 21 December 2008, 02:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  See comments.
Comment by Alessio Bolognino (mOLOk) - Thursday, 19 July 2007, 01:58 GMT
this is obviously a feature request, but I can't find out how to change the Task Type :)
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Thursday, 19 July 2007, 07:23 GMT
I don`t think so. Afaik "public domain" only exists within the US. In Germany for example such a "license" it is not possible.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 19 July 2007, 15:15 GMT
Does it matter, Pierre? I'm not sure how license types in Arch correspond to real countries laws. /me shrugs
Alessio, note that most public domain software just states "this work is public domain" and does not include the same text as CC provides.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 19:55 GMT
Not sure how to proceed on this one. I like the suggestion however.
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Tuesday, 07 October 2008, 15:51 GMT
I'd like to see this included.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 19 December 2008, 10:38 GMT
Do we have public domain licensed packages that can use this? I would like to see the license definition in such packages. I think public domain licensing is just a licensing type, just like BSD and X11. Those licenses require additional copyright information.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 21 December 2008, 02:28 GMT
I don't know that we do, and you have a good point here- you would need to include some sort of custom license text anyway for copyright.

I'm going to close this because it is relatively stale and there isn't really a way we can go forward with this (or even a need).

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