I'm trying to determine if the LZMA SDK is properly in the public domain. The author (Igor Pavlov) is Russian, and supposedly the work was placed into the public domain on 2008-11-23 which I guess would mean that the Russian Federation's new copyright code would be involved. However, that's about as far into the matter as I can comprehend.
Anyway, this is about all I have:
LICENSE -------
7z ANSI-C Decoder is part of the LZMA SDK. LZMA SDK is written and placed in the public domain by Igor Pavlov.
4.61 beta 2008-11-23 ------------------------- - The bug in ANSI-C LZMA Decoder was fixed: If encoded stream was corrupted, decoder could access memory outside of allocated range. - Some changes in ANSI-C 7z Decoder interfaces. - LZMA SDK is placed in the public domain.
The code is at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma465.tar.bz2 Any guidance would be appreciated.
- J<
I guess I should say that this must have already been worked out before, because if the LZMA SDK is not public domain, then XZ isn't either, and that makes its way into all kinds of things and is somewhat critical to our distribution. I just don't recall seeing it discussed before.
- J<
On 01/27/2011 01:59 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I'm trying to determine if the LZMA SDK is properly in the public domain. The author (Igor Pavlov) is Russian, and supposedly the work was placed into the public domain on 2008-11-23 which I guess would mean that the Russian Federation's new copyright code would be involved. However, that's about as far into the matter as I can comprehend.
While I'm not at all an expert in modern Russian copyright law, it looks like the new Russian Federation copyright laws include moral rights, so the question is whether they can waive those rights.
Googling around seems to imply that the answer is no, which means we need to talk to Igor Pavlov and have him put a proper license on it.
(Note: I also discovered that you can waive moral rights in India, but not in Mexico.)
~tom
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