begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:47:57PM -0500: [snip] > And thats perfectly legit- if tis public domain I can do whatever I want > with it, including add it to a GPLed project.
Not quite -- you can't take credit for it. That's plagairism. > Of course, a 3rd party can > then still bring it into a proprietary project, as it is still public > domain. Don't like it? Don't use public domain/ The problem isn't that someone is _using_ it in a GPL project, or a proprietary project. That's not a concern. More power to 'em. I'm talking about re-releasing it as GPL'd software, so anyone else who uses the code will be bit by the GPL virus, unless they manage to track down the original sources (assuming they learn enough about it to look). It just reflects the depths to which the GPL advocates will go to get "all software released under the GPL". This is a problem I have with the GPL ideology... it wants to infect everything: no variation allowed (in the long run). Ideology, not practicality, fairness, or morality, is the driving force. -Stewart "It's like a set-up to a vast ironic joke." Stremler
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