Re: Re: OODL: GCC is GPL so why aren't we?

[DeRobertis]

At 3:03 AM -0500 on 11/14/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>well, yeah, but lets say I want to make ClarisOffice 2001, I wanna give VB
>for Apps a run for it's money, so I integrate NuCard with ClarisOffice. It's
>in the NuCard consortium to have this done (publicizes nuCard and allows
>nuCard to work with ClarisOffic), and it couldn't be done with a PD license
>because if nuCard was PD, ClarisOffice would be too.

Not true. Just because I integrate some PD code does not mean my product
becomes public domain. You can do anything with PD code -- including put it
into a copyrighted product. You retain the copyright to your code, the PD
code remains copyrightless, but you own the collection of the two.