Re: Copyright question

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> writes:

> I wonder if releasing something into the public domain also
> automatically releases you from any liability associated with its use,
> at least in the U.S.A. (prompting the big uppercase paragraph in the
> BSD license as well as many others).

Of course not.  If I release a bullet into the public domain, this does
not automatically release me from any liability associated with its
impact, either.  Not even if I did not do so with malice but merely
carelessness.

-- 
David Kastrup