On 20-Feb-07, at 11:56 AM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Free software is similar to public domain software? Or is BSD
similar to
public domains software? Are you serious?
The BSD License is almost a Public Domain license.
and what, precisely, is a 'Public Domain license'? Kindly attempt to
distinguish between a license, which BSD is, and an absence of
license, which is Public Domain. License is based on copyright, or
ownership. Public domain is the relinquishment of copyright -
relinquishment of ownership. The question of license only arises in
the case where the author asserts copyright. It cannot arise in the
case of Public Domain where there is *no* copyright. So the very
phrase 'Public domain license' is an oxymoron. (and if you are
continuing this debate, please, please, dont quote wikipedia)
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