-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 February 2007 12:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > 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)
I was wrong in using the phrase ``public domain license'' as that indeed is an oxymoron. What I meant to say was that a 2 clause BSD style license is in effect almost equivalent to placing the software in the public domain. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2p3PQkk0lIY2G3QRAgb7AJwKiu79xKpGzx+jrtjqcaba6MjoEQCfTPE6 KGz1nXWlcOdQPXleHNVGQS4= =EjxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
