"David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, October 7, 2008 09:19, Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be great if programmers could just focus on writing code >> rather than having to worry about getting sued over whether someone >> else is able or not to make a derivative program from their code? > > If that's what you want, it's easy to achieve. Simply place your code > explicitly in the public domain. > > So stop trying to muck up what lots of the rest of us want, which is > that developments based on free code *stay* free, okay?
Alas, it's not even as simple as that. The author of SQLite, D. Richard Hipp, took this approach for reasons like those above. He's said[1] that he wouldn't do it again, since there are problems for users in some jurisdictions that have no concept of "Public Domain". He said he'd probably use a BSD licence, if he did it all again. [1] See, e.g. http://twit.tv/floss26 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
