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diff --git a/data/licenses/public-domain.txt b/data/licenses/public-domain.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68cf1a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/licenses/public-domain.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the +material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically +speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well +have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public +domain material is compatible with the GNU GPL. + +If you want to release your work to the public domain, we encourage +you to use formal tools to do so. We ask people who make small +contributions to GNU to sign a disclaimer form; that's one +solution. If you're working on a project that doesn't have formal +contribution policies like that, CC0 is a good tool that anyone can +use. It formally dedicates your work to the public domain, and +provides a fallback license for cases where that is not legally +possible. + +http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:CC0 + +Source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain |