-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Stremler wrote: > Not quite -- you can't take credit for it. That's plagairism.
Is there anything from legally stopping one from doing it though? It might be ethically wrong but is it legally wrong? I thought one could only sue for copyright and public domain stuff is without copyright, no? At the very least, you may not be able to take credit but you certainly don't have to give credit. > 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. The software was put into the public domain so that people could do this very sort of thing with it. I think it is a good thing. Not only does the original public domain copy persist but the GPL protected branch also persists. Less chance of the software becoming extinct altogether. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDBim39PIYKZYVAq0RAiC2AJ9y768IbhopOJgn6bo7TpY0BfNRZQCgm4Cs OEGleVdi7OGteigZonLNkgc= =fDh0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
