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Formal Public Domain Dedication



After careful consideration over the course of several months, I have decided to formally dedicate the contents of TimBoucher.com to the Public Domain, under the appropriate license (available through the Creative Commons organization) and within all relevant legal jurisdictions.

All web-based content contained within or under the URL “http://www.TimBoucher.com” which I have created and published here (or will in the future, excluding login/password and admin info & access), and which I have the legal right to declare as such is hereafter formally relinquished to the Public Domain in perpetuity, and declared “copyright-free” in jurisdictions which recognize such distinctions.

From here on out, I will act as the sole Trustee of the content hereby dedicated to the Public Domain, administering existing content and creating new content under the terms of this dedication.

This note is to be considered legally binding. A copy of this dedication is on file with the Creative Commons organization, and I will be additionally having a parallel hardcopy declaration notarized in the near future.

Timothy S. Boucher
3:45pm, December 6th, 2007
Baltimore, MD, USA







5 Reader Responses

  1. Tim Boucher Says:

    Oh, and Happy St. Nicholas Day!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
    http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=371

    I look forward to talking through the implications of this creative move, but until then, hopefully these two posts will give you an idea of the inspiration which compelled me to finally go through with this plan:

    - Community Money Makes Us All Wealthy
    - MC Folksinger

    Long live public spaces!

  2. Svenson says Says:

    Humanity is a little richer today. Thanks!

  3. cadeveo Says:

    Congratulations. I know you’ve given me so much already.

    Hail the community!

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