[maemo-community] 'Public Domain' license

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-community-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-community-
> bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Jeremiah Foster
> Sent: 15 January, 2010 12:02
> To: List for community development
> Subject: 'Public Domain' license
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	Does maemo.org or Nokia have a 'public domain' license policy?
> Packages that are in the public domain sometimes fall into a grey area
> in debian because there is no certain way to assign copyright and that
> creates a degree of uncertainty as to licensing. How do we view a
> public domain license?

There is the option of choosing public domain for a garage project. But the cases I have seen would not (IMO) cause licensing issues, as the ones I have seen are individual small projects.

This question might be more relevant in the Mer context.

Tero

> Best,
> 
> 	Jeremiah
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