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. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
