On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brian Behlendorf scripsit: > > > So what happens when I download the code under a FOIA/public domain issue, > > and then relicense under a BSD license? Don't I have the right to > > relicense PD works? > > You can do anything you want to with a public domain work except try to assert > a valid copyright on it, which is one of the incidents of the BSD or any > other open-source license. So, no.
So I have no right to create a derivative work of a public domain work and release that derivative work under a license of my choice? For example, I can not take PD code and incorporate it into Apache httpd? I must misunderstand what public domain means, then. Brian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3