On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:33:41 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 20-Feb-07, at 12:35 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
>> I was wrong in using the phrase ``public domain license'' as that
>> indeed is an oxymoron. What I meant to say was that a 2 clause BSD
>> style license is in effect almost equivalent to placing the
>> software in the public domain.
> no way, it is totally different - or do you recognise 'Public
> Domain' as GPL compatible or 'Free Software'?
Software placed in the public domain is compatible with the
GPL, in that it can be combined with software licensed under the GPL,
and since it provides the users with the four essential freedoms, it
is also free software. It also happens to be OSS, since it meets the
requirements of the definition of OSS.
manoj
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