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From: "Robert Piasek (dagger)" <dagger@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in licenses: CC-PD
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:29:41
Message-Id: E1MfZcC-0003EZ-4o@stork.gentoo.org
1 dagger 09/08/24 13:29:40
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3 Added: CC-PD
4 Log:
5 Added Creative Common Public Domain license
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7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.1 licenses/CC-PD
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/CC-PD?rev=1.1&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/CC-PD?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
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13 Index: CC-PD
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15 THIS WORK IS IN PUBLIC DOMAIN:
16 The person or persons who have associated work with this document
17 (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best
18 of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of
19 the country from which the work is published, or (b) hereby dedicates whatever
20 copyright the dedicators holds in the work of authorship identified below
21 (the "Work") to the public domain. A certifier, moreover, dedicates any
22 copyright interest he may have in the associated work, and for these purposes,
23 is described as a "dedicator" below.
24
25 A certifier has taken reasonable steps to verify the copyright status of this
26 work. Certifier recognizes that his good faith efforts may not shield him from
27 liability if in fact the work certified is not in the public domain.
28
29 Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to
30 the detriment of the Dedicator's heirs and successors. Dedicator intends this
31 dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present
32 and future rights under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the
33 Work. Dedicator understands that such relinquishment of all rights includes the
34 relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those
35 copyrights in the Work.
36
37 Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be
38 freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or
39 otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial,
40 and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or
41 conceived.