On Tue, March 4, 2008 1:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:48:31AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
>> Declaring something to be public domain and disseminating it freely seem
>> to
>> be sufficient.
>
RMS doesn't think so.
Remember, M$ took lots of src that had been put in the bublic domain,
cleaned it up, and closed it again.
UC Berkeley Ingres project ---+---> PostgreSQL
|
+---> M$ SQL Server
If putting things in the public domain were enough, there would be no GPL
and no FSF.
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