On 11/14/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
No, but it *is* still possible to dedicate original material to the public domain, is it not?
Maybe. The courts haven't tested it. In law, "public domain" is where stuff goes when its copyright expires, and under some other circumstances; nothing explicitly says you can put stuff there. Thus in proper legalese, you normally say something closer to "I grant an irrevocable, unconditional, duty-free license to everyone in the world to use, modify, redistribute, and otherwise do whatever they want with my work."
Or something to that effect. I may have confused some of the details a bit. The issue is discussed on [[public domain]], I think.