Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:49:27AM -0700: > > > The software was put into the public domain so that people could do this > > very sort of thing with it. > > Um, no.
Uh, yes. > 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.... Oddly, I am not hearing it now. Public domain code is the child left at the doorsteps. People write it, release it, and never bother with it again. Look at all the public domain code their used to be. Look at all the proprietary code floating about there now. Are you going to tell me that *no* public domain code is locked away in here? We find *GPL* code that is *ILLEGALLY* in proprietary products. Putting Public Domain code in a proprietary product is a freebie: no one can (legally) complain. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
