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List:       jabber-jdev
Subject:    Re: [jdev] wiki.xmpp.org
From:       Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt.Zeilenga () Isode ! com>
Date:       2009-12-23 1:00:48
Message-ID: 03B95F8F-3564-4C87-B452-4BA028AFBCCF () Isode ! com
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On Dec 22, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:

> On Tue Dec 22 19:34:42 2009, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> > On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:57 AM, David Ammouial wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 09:55:57 Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > > > > So, you change the license without asking all the content authors out
> > > > > there? ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > It was in the public domain. They didn't have any rights. ;-)
> > > 
> > > Do you mean it's possible to take a public-domain work and re-license it
> > > according to your will?
> > No.
> > But you can incorporate PD material in licensed work without restriction.  While \
> > the combined work might well be subject to other licenses, a work once placed in \
> > the public domain is always forever in the public domain.   That is, you can (at \
> > least in theory) extract the public domain work from the combined work and use it \
> > without restriction.  Of course, in practice, extracting such works from a \
> > combined work can be quite difficult.
> 
> Only, of course, in jurisdictions where PD exists as a concept.

In practice, matters not.

-- Kurt
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