[Bug 479598] Review Request: aopalliance - AOP offers a better solution to many problems than do existing technologies

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--- Comment #20 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2010-06-01 13:56:26 EDT ---
Well, the legal definition of Public Domain is:

"the realm or status of property rights that belong to the community at large,
are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to appropriation by
anyone"

(source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ©1996.)

You cannot simultaneously have a work be unprotected by copyright (or subject
to appropriation by anyone) and retain moral rights on that work. The moral
rights are tied into the copyright.

Now, the copyright holder(s) could grant an extremely permissive license on
that work, CC-0 is an excellent example of a license specifically crafted to
work around precisely this issue and come to the same practical end-result as a
public domain declaration where the copyright holder is in a jurisdiction
without moral rights.

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