Le Monday 28 January 2002 � 09:28:19, David Corcoran a �crit: > > why don't you licence the skeleton as public domain ? > > Last time I checked BSD was a public domain license.
BSD is not a public domain licence or maybe you can give me pointers (I am not a lawyer). According to [1]: � Public Domain. Being in the public domain is not a license--rather, it means the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public domain status is compatible with the GNU GPL. � And according to [2]: � For the most part, the software constituting the NetBSD operating system is not in the public domain; its authors retain their copyright. � Your licence imposes restrictions and a copyright. So it cannot be considered Public Domain. I agree that using a Public Domain licence for the skeleton may be a good idea if you want it to be used in proprietary codes (that may be limited by your publicity clause). Regards, [1] http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html [2] http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Normaliser Unix c'est comme pasteuriser le Camembert, L.R. -- *************************************************************** Unix Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/ To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe sclinux ***************************************************************
