Joel> The author releases the software into the public domain. Ten Joel> seconds later boost copyrights the software and releases it Joel> under the Boost Public License...
I believe that once something is in the public domain, it can no longer be copyrighted. Anyone who likes can attach any kind of notice to it, but those notices have no effect because the original item is in the public domain. My understanding is that this state of affairs is one reason why the Free Software Foundation refuses to distribute the source code for the implementation of the Icon programming language: The authors (University of Arizona) have placed the implementation in the public domain, but the FSF distributes only material that is covered by the GPL. -- Andrew Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.research.att.com/info/ark _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
