Re: [Bug-wget] security risk of unexpected download filenames

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Solar Designer wrote:

> As an alternative to copyright assignment to the FSF, perhaps Florian could 
> simply place his changes in the public domain by unambiguously stating so on 
> a public mailing list?  I think that would save him time.

Is that really a sound legal advice?

I believe Florian is from Europe, and while I'm not a lawer of any kind I do 
know that basically no european country have the same approach to "public 
domain" as the US does. I wouldn't be so sure that waiving your rights like 
that is effective enough.

In addition to that, there are even lawyers who claim public domain isn't a 
license and thus is _incompatible_ with GPL so it might not even be a proper 
solution in the first place.

To be clear: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

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