http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CombinePublicDomainWithGPL
That'll be $75, please. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "The very limit of human blindness is to glory in being blind." ---St. Augustine On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > There are a few software projects that I would like to make some > custom changes to. However, these projects are not under any form of > public version control, e.g. Sorceforge, github, rubyforge, etc. In > fact, they are all released as Public Domain, most often some by > government agency that hasn't updated the software in years. > > Can I take the source code, make changes, put it on, say, github under > my name, and release the code under a GPL? Do I need to make any > reference that some (most) of the original code was released as Public > Domain and from where I got it? > > Regards, > - Robert > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
