Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Slime must *explicitly*
> place the work into the public domain.

  From my experience even lawyers specialized in copyright issues seem
to disagree on whether it's possible for the author to remove copyright
from a work just by declaring so. Some lawyers say it is possible,
others say the law has no such concept.

  If I were to release something to completely unrestricted usage I
would not trust that just saying "this is PD" is enough. I would use an
explicit license. (For software the MIT license would be good for this,
for example.) Then there would be absolutely no controversy possible.

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