Some/many projects' licenses might be illegal

[Natureshadow]

I had a quick look at some of the Arduino projects, and found most of them stating "This example code is in the public domain.", event those modified by (as I guess) participants of the coder dojos.

Of course, all modifications are copyrighted by the participants, so they are either "All rights reserved" or need to be placed under an express licence (which the minors can only do with parental consent).

The public domain claims in the source files, however, are most likely wrong and illegal.

[niccokunzmann]

Thanks for your issue. Is there any action you would suggest, to solve this? You are also welcome to provide pull-requests.

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On 26.01.2017 16:32, Dominik George wrote: I had a quick look at some of the Arduino projects, and found most of them stating "This example code is in the public domain.", event those modified by (as I guess) participants of the coder dojos. Of course, all modifications are copyrighted by the participants, so they are either "All rights reserved" or need to be placed under an express licence (which the minors can only do with parental consent). The public domain claims in the source files, however, are most likely wrong and illegal. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAieIJNSWRNhMY7IuNfE-x5pOFt2fEneks5rWLyfgaJpZM4LuxC6>.

[Natureshadow]

Hi,

Is there any action you would suggest, to solve this? You are also welcome to provide pull-requests.

well, I can't. There are three steps, basically: 1. Make sure every author who is younger than 18 years has written parental consent to give licenses (see reference discussed in the organise repository). 2. Have every author give an express license on their work. 3. Unpublish everything you cannot get licensed. And maybe… 4. Make sure to avoid this issue in the future, by incorporating the parental consent/licensing stuff in your general workflow. Cheers, Nik

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[niccokunzmann2]

Working on it, then.

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On 26.01.2017 18:46, Dominik George wrote: Hi, > Is there any action you would suggest, to solve this? > You are also welcome to provide pull-requests. well, I can't. There are three steps, basically: 1. Make sure every author who is younger than 18 years has written parental consent to give licenses (see reference discussed in the organise repository). 2. Have every author give an express license on their work. 3. Unpublish everything you cannot get licensed. And maybe… 4. Make sure to avoid this issue in the future, by incorporating the parental consent/licensing stuff in your general workflow. Cheers, Nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Hundeshagenstr. 26 · 53225 Bonn Mobile: +49-1520-1981389 · https://www.dominik-george.de/ Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Maintainer LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJVPvS18usifHKEnSg195Yhp67nGgBODks5rWNwAgaJpZM4LuxC6>.