> I try to kill both birds with a boilerplate that states that my FAQ is in
> the public domain -- though if you quote from it, you MUST give credit to
> the author(s). This isn't always me, as I've quoted others, with
> pointers to an 'acknowledgments' section at the end.
[snip]
> This is just standard legalese found in the front of most technical books.
[snip]
My understanding of copyright (from reading the copyright FAQ) is that
if it's public domain, you can't put *any* restrictions on use -- only
a copyright holder has the right to control how it's copied. If an
author places their work in the public domain, they are giving up
control over that work.
See the FAQ, for example at
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/mirrors/faq/copyright/faq/part2, for
more info, since that's where I got my info.
En paz,
Steve
-- Stephen W. Thompson, U. of PA, Data Administration, 215-898-1236, WWW has PGP thompson@isc.upenn.edu URL=http://pobox.upenn.edu/~thompson/index.html
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