Re: A Little Linguistic Playground

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jason Vogel <jasonvogel[_at_]ibm.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Jason Vogel <jasonvogel[_at_]ibm.net> writes:
> >
> > The thing I can't understand about this whole "decopyright"
> > conversation is why anyone would want to do it. It seems to me that
> > by abandoning your copyright you would enable others to repackage
> > and sell the very expression you intended to be freely available.
>

<snip>
> Another disadvantage to decopyrighting arises from the fact that there's
> no right of attribution in U.S. copyright law. Thus, a decopyrighter's
> expression could be repackaged and sold without credit. Here too, a
> license would seem preferable.

It seems to me that most of the objections fo putting something into public domain amount to "giving up all of your rights to your work gives up all all your rights in the work." Given that that's the _point_ of placing the work in the public domain, I don't see those as serious objections.

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