On Tue, March 4, 2008 1:53 pm, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:35:37PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
>
>>If putting things in the public domain were enough, there would be no GPL
>>and no FSF.
>
> Goodness, not at all.  Richard has an explicit purpose different than the
> public domain, that proprietary modifications will not be allowed.  Public
> domain allows use for any purpose, including making proprietary products.
> The GPL was created to prevent that.
>
> David
>

Exactly. As I just said in another post, I think some on this thread are
confusing public domain with free to use.

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Lan Barnes

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