begin quoting David Brown as of Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:53:56PM -0800: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:35:37PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > >If putting things in the public domain were enough, there would be no GPL > >and no FSF. > > Goodness, not at all. Richard has an explicit purpose different than the > public domain, that proprietary modifications will not be allowed. Public > domain allows use for any purpose, including making proprietary products. > The GPL was created to prevent that.
Public domain software is antithetical to the reason for GPL. All software can't become free-as-in-beer if you can build tools on top of public domain software and *sell* it. -- Gifts with strings Soon become chains. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
