Re: data "copyright" or not -- what is Debian's take? (original) (raw)

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 at 10:44:34 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

Should I advise to blindly attach a copyright statement and license, possibly copyrighting non-copyrightable, thus committing "Copyfraud" in some jurisdictions?

I'm not a lawyer or anything, but would this work?

To the extent that it is covered by copyright under any applicable laws,
this data is copyright © 1984 Winston Smith.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
[... and the rest of the usual MIT license text]

If it turns out not to be covered by copyright, this is a no-op; if it is, it gives permission for more or less everything.

S

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