Re: Potential LSR licensing violations

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> BTW, the term 'public domain' is problematic in Europe, since this
>> US law construct doesn't necessarily mean the same in all
>> countries, in particular not in Germany.[*]
>> 
>> Maybe it should be changed to CC0
>> (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed) for
>> further contributions?
> 
> I'm not seeing clearly into what that means for us.  LSR is based in
> Italy (hosted on a server provided by the University of Milan).  If
> a German citizen contributes a snippet, which definition of 'public
> domain' applies?

This is exactly the issue.  By using CC0, the legal impacts are
minimized.

At the time of inventing the LSR, such copyright issues were handled
in a rather lax way.  Today, we (unfortunately) have to take a more
informed point of view.


    Werner