yes to your clarification, Matija -- I was talking about my/our own works. However ... What about cases that have been adjudged by the court as uncopyrightable or public domain contrary to a claim

<carmenbianca@...> wrote: Except, apparently, if you're a conservative lawyer at certain U.S. federal government agencies! Richard

Hi there, just our two cents... When looking at a linux distribution we recently ran into the following package text: "The contents of this package are ineligible for copyright protection." We

Hi Matija, Wouldn't that have been lapsus digiti rather than lapsus calami? I will admit that my latin is mostly self-taught. But a slip of the finger might be a miskeying rather than the pen,

You’re correct. Lapsus calami due to writing before finishing my morning tea. CC0-1.0 marks it that whatever that thing is, its author either waives all their rights, or if they can’t do that

Je mar, 2020-03-10 je 10:04 +0100, Matija Šuklje skribis: I would counter that marking something as CC0-1.0 does not clearly communicate something as uncopyrightable. Even so, slapping a license on

Just to clarify … your question is solely about marking your own works – i.e. stuff that if it were copyrightable, you would hold copyright it? If so, I would still suggest marking it with

I worry that I did not describe my use-case well. Let me try again. Rule: in my organization, all our OSS must have have explicit clearance based on SPDX-License-Identifier and SPDX-FileCopyrightText

oh geez, sorry all - Steve already pointed you all to that discussion! I missed that URL - my bad!

Hi all, Going back to Michael’s original post as seems like we got on a tangent regarding CC public domain mark (which seems like an easier discussion). I think we need to be clear on what we are

Dear David: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@...> wrote: I think these are generated by this fine Python code [1] [1]

Thanks David, this is helpful. I've added relevant portions to a new issue at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/988 for discussion and review. -- Steve Winslow Director of Strategic

> Regarding the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark: For items to be added to the SPDX License List, among other requirements there needs to be a corresponding "matching text" that represents the

Hi Michael, David and Max, Thanks for your emails. A couple of comments: Regarding the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark: For items to be added to the SPDX License List, among other requirements

michael.kaelbling@... [2020-03-09 10:45 +0100]: Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: As Creative Commons says, "CC0 should not be used to

Hi Michael, ~ michael.kaelbling@... [2020-03-09 10:45 +0100]: Actually, that's one of the two options REUSE suggests: * Add a copyright and licensing header anyway * Use CC0-1.0 as a license

How should I correctly tag uncopyrightable material? The U.S. Copyright Office states in https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf that some materials are "uncopyrightable because they contain an

Jilayne: I would have loved to join but my travel plans are already set and I am leaving Friday. A bit more of an advance notice would have been needed. Phone would be nice. -- Cordially Philippe

I had not realized SPDX was hosting something after the summit so am slated to leave on Thursday evening. I could join via phone though for a portion of that time slot. On 2/27/20, 3:53 PM,

Also, GitHub does have built in wiki functionality not to mention multiple ways to generate websites/documentation using the repo functionality. I don't think issues are the best way to capture