[aur-general] license convention for public domain packages

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

Agree...
Think the same. The name explains itself.
Public Domain should be public.

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paulo Matias <matias at archlinux-br.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Daenyth Blank<daenyth+arch at gmail.com<daenyth%2Barch at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 13:02, Hugo Doria<hugodoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am with Allan here.
> >> +1 for 'custom'.
> > +2
> >
>
> I'd not agree here. Isn't public domain exactly the absence of a
> license? When something is public domain you have no obligations at
> all. Even citing the author's name isn't required. You can do what you
> want with a public domain work.
>
> So I can't see why should we require to ship a different public domain
> declaration for each public domain package. I think something like
> 'none' or 'PD' without the obligation to install anything to
> /usr/share/licenses would be the best way to go here.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paulo Matias
>