Don't put your software in the public domain

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:41 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html
> 
>  From that:
>> It might be ruled to create a global licence for unrestricted use. That
>  > licence might or might not then be adjudicated to be revocable by
>  > subsequent copyright owners (heirs, divorcing spouses, creditors).
> 
> If that's possible, then could said heirs, divorcing spouses
> and creditors also revoke supposedly permanent rights granted
> under an explicit licence? Or is putting the word "irrevocable"
> in the licence enough to prevent that?

Ask a real lawyer :-)

This is why we should use licences that have been written and vetted by
actual lawyers. They're the experts.



-- 
Steven