BCS wrote: > Hello Georg, > >> Well (still resisting opening Pandora's box!!!!), I see Public Domain >> as a superset of any of the OSS &co licenses. Oper source simply means >> (to me, anyway), free to use anyway you want, including selling and >> incorporating into other people's apps. >> >> So, licencing somethign as Public Domain, ought to make FSF and >> others, to be able (er, willing would be the word) to incorporate the >> code, as they see fit. >> > > The issue might be that the GPL code forbids some thing and unless FSF > owns the original code, the question can come up of if someone is > misusing the GPL copy or correctly using the public domain copy.
Suggestion.. avoid speculation about the FSF motives or requirements and the reasons behind them. Let's let whoever can/will pursue it with them and see how it unfolds.
