[docbook-css] Licence Clarification

[martin.gautier@myrnham.co.uk]

>>I believe dedicating your work to the Public Domain means that you 
revoke
>>all copyright claims, so you have absolutely no say in what people later
>>do with it.

I'd imagine that would be true if it was declared Public Domain and no 
copyright notice was attached. By copyrighting the material, you get the 
right to say how you want it to be used. ie. Free, copyable and changeable 
as long as the copyrigt notice is intact.

I guess I don't have a real beef about how license text is worded as long 
as:

"Copyright (c) 2004 David Holroyd, and contributors" is prominent.
If there's a small number of major contributors, you might want to name 
them?
It's clear that the software is free and public and can be copied, changed 
and reused.
There's a statement removing liability and fitness for use.

I thought maybe the "...in perpetuity" might help?

There's a number of OSS license templates around. I guess we can just 
choose one, attach it and place a neat tick next to the relevent items in 
our To-Do lists ;o)

Mart