On Sun, 3 Sep 2023, Jim Knoble wrote: >Or is there a specific jurisdiction that claims that DJB's original >copyright somehow overrides that? The Berne Convention kinda does that (copyright is automatic), and in most of Europe, authors cannot voluntarily relinquish copyright so all works only enter into the Public Domain on the 1ˢᵗ January that follows their 70ᵗʰ anniversary of death. In contrast to works done by employees of the USA government (who successfully defended their copyright in a European court, whereas it’s in the PD in the USA automatically), however, with an explicit dedication like this DJB has no grounds to sue anyone over it. Yet, it’s, strictly speaking, code under copyright with no licence, which kinda violates “Integrate good code from any source with acceptable licenses.” (http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html), plus, commercial violation of copyright is a felony in some legislations and possibly might not need the original author to sue. IANAL, TINLA, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-) _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
