Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly

Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by mikekchar on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @06:54AM (#22802077)

Wow. I love the license: "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."

I wonder if that is good enough. I'm temped to use that for my extremely permissive stuff.

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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by rwmj on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:22AM (#22802210)

I copied that from Wikipedia (back in 2007 obviously) public domain release statement, which is written by a lawyer so I've no reason to believe it's not watertight, at least in the US. The intent is to make it public domain, but unfortunately you can't "place something in the public domain" in most jurisdictions, contrary to popular belief. Therefore you have to provide the back-up extremely liberal license. Nowadays as others have said you'd be better off using CC0.

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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by flixic on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:02AM (#22802113)

Specifically to make it "good enough", CC0 was created:

> CC0 helps solve this problem by giving creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by Tomte on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:00AM (#22802104)

CC0 is another way to do it, much wordier, but with legal advice behind it: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

I still like the JonesForth version of a public domain release.

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