> However if this aspect is important enough to you that you put it in the very title of your site, you should probably do it in a way that actually works for people.
I assert that public domain does work for people, even Germans in practice. It doesn't work for risk averse corporations.
The point of a license is entirely to mitigate risk. I trust open-source developers to not go after me and my meager projects, but still I appreciate when they take the 2min needed to slap a legal-like document on their library.
When you refuse to do that, and decide to spend way more than 2min explaining your belief that this might not be required (though you are not a lawyer, have no court decisions to back it up, and have otherwise done a limited review of a few countries), you are making the conscious decision to go out of your way to increase the risk on me. I don't appreciate that, but does that really make me "risk-averse"?
American FOSS developers who put their code in the public domain are taking those 2 minutes to slap a legal-like document on their code. A short document telling other programmers that the code is public domain clearly communicates the intent and wishes of the author to other developers.
They're giving something to the world for free, with no strings attached, clearly communicated. But despite that, some people will complain because it wasn't done in precisely the correct way to keep corporate lawyers in a notoriously legalistic and pedantic foreign country happy.
Any legal-like document that mitigates risk for one parry does so by restricting another party.
So, its natural that people will choose not to do more of than they see as necessary to deal with speculative risks raised by third-parties who are often either not attorneys, or attorneys for people whose interests are not aligned with those whose action is sought, based on some foreign legal system with which thr actor is unfamiliar.
If you don't like what you are being offered for free, you are, of course, at liberty to move along.
I am also at liberty to offer a comment on it on this here comment section... If you feel like the point of this site is to offer silent upvotes, you are at liberty to do that.
I assert that public domain does work for people, even Germans in practice. It doesn't work for risk averse corporations.