What's the current state of D?

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Tue May 12 23:13:30 PDT 2009


BCS wrote:
> Hello Georg,
> 
>> Well (still resisting opening Pandora's box!!!!), I see Public Domain
>> as a superset of any of the OSS &co licenses. Oper source simply means
>> (to me, anyway), free to use anyway you want, including selling and
>> incorporating into other people's apps.
>>
>> So, licencing somethign as Public Domain, ought to make FSF and
>> others, to be able (er, willing would be the word) to incorporate the
>> code, as they see fit.
>>
> 
> The issue might be that the GPL code forbids some thing and unless FSF
> owns the original code, the question can come up of if someone is
> misusing the GPL copy or correctly using the public domain copy.

Suggestion.. avoid speculation about the FSF motives or requirements and the
reasons behind them.  Let's let whoever can/will pursue it with them and see how
it unfolds.



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