[2011-02-06 19:28:38 -0200] Bernardo Barros: > 2011/2/6 Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]>: > > "By uploading content to the Arch User Repository, you irrevocably agree > > to release it in the public domain, to the extent permitted by law." > > GPL would do no harm to Arch either. And pieces of code with less then > 10 lines can't have any copyright. The difference in practice is > minimal, since it is very unlikely that this piece of code would > integrate a non-free software, even including big patches and tricky > things.
Since there is little difference, why choose a complicated license such as the GPL over the (much simpler) public domain? > The pratical differente I can see is the need to keep the > attribution when it makes sense. If you rewrite everything from > scratch, you are the author anyway. Rewriting from scratch is okay for one PKGBUILD, but I believe we should also allow people to copy the whole database. -- Gaetan
