begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:49:27AM -0700: > 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? Misrepresentation and fraud laws, perhaps?
> At the very least, you may not be able to take credit but you certainly > don't have to give credit. True. Thus the BSD license. [snip] > The software was put into the public domain so that people could do this > very sort of thing with it. Um, no. Imagine the uproar of $despised_corporation took code out of the public domain and relicensed it with their $oppressive_license -- there would be an uproar. Cries of "theft!" would ring out. Passionate denunciations would be posted to slashdot. The skies would shake with the wrath of the assembled geeks.... > 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. Pure speculative (and wishful) thinking, *I* think. -Stewart "I prefer the Library GPL over all other GPL variants" Stremler
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