On Tue, March 4, 2008 3:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:39:57PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: >> What about Qmail? DJB released any and all licensing on it and >> released it to the Public Domain just last year. >> >> There is no public domain "license". It's just "public domain", as in >> "here, take it." You know, like the air. > > You haven't read the aforementioned gotchas with naively doing that. > > Chris > >
No, I believe Gregory is right. public domain noun Law. 1. the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection. They might have added, whose author has quit-claim of such protection. "Public domain" does _not_ mean "free to use but still copyrighted" in any form. It means having no copyright protection whatsoever. I have a feeling from what little I've read of this thread (and it's about to become LOTS more little), mySQLlite or whatever it is is not being released public domain, but rather free to use but still ours. That would be similar to the Acrobat reader. Please note that the GPL is very much not public domain. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
