[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: Copyright of trivial code

[Henrik Maier]

On 21/03/2011 8:30 AM, Henrik Maier wrote:
> Hi Harald,
>> As Bernd correctly stated, at least in many European countries you
>> cannot disclaim a copyright. Copyrights may expire, but the period is
>> fixed by law.
>
> Maybe that topic needs more research or there is some misunderstanding
> what copyright transfer and assignment means.
>
> I believe copyright assignment and transfer can be done in almost any
> country. Definitely in Germany, Australia, UK and the US.

Sorry, my misunderstanding here, because I mixed up "disclaimer" and 
"transfer/assignment". It is the public domain concept which is very 
different in for example Germany and to my astonishment indeed not 
possible to put something in the public domain there.
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfreiheit)

With no public domain concept possible for the example files, we are 
back to square one now and like Ulrich said we may best stick to the 
current BSD header concept.

Henrik