age: The authors (University
of Arizona) have placed the implementation in the public domain,
but the FSF distributes only material that is covered by the GPL.
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s work, being a ``US Government work'' is in the
public domain and *cannot* be copyrighted or licensed. That is,
*nothing* that anyone does with his work can legally prevent anyone
from copying it, so there is no meaningful way of licensing it.
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Joel> Once something has been released into the public domain, then it
Joel> is free. I can use it to create a derivative work under my own
Joel> copyright. The derivative work can have very minimal changes
Joel> such as simple formatting. For examples look at any of the
Joel> republished classi
>> That fact does not gainsay what I said earlier: It is not
>> possible to license public-domain material.
Joel> I think we are in agreement...it is meaningless or impossible to license
Joel> public-domain material...however, just the act of putting a license
Joel> notice in the public-material
7;m quite sure that ownership is the issue, because the same
issue rears its head in
http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html
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