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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem with "public domain" is that anybody can claim to
> have written it himself, distribute it without mentioning the fact
> that it is in the public domain, and fool people into paying him
> royalties. All he can't successfully do is sue them if they don't.

Another thing is that, in some countries, you cannot surrender your
copyright. If univrsal public domain is what you're after you can use
the Creative commons CC0 license, or (shameless plug) a WTF public
license [1, 2].

-- Pierre-Yves

[0] http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/waiver
[1] http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
[2] https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License