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- Subject: Re: Copyright question
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:22:40 -0300
> To actually place something in the public domain, you need to _register_
> it as such I think. So most code claiming to be in the public domain
> isn't. It just has an expression of intent affixed to it. If the
> author dies and his heirs decide their intent is different, there is not
> much you can do about that.
For the record, I've updated the license section for my Lua tools:
http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/install.html#license
Just in case I get run over by a bus or something today. :-)
The intent remains to be as free as possible.
--lhf