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On Tuesday 20 February 2007 12:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say:
On 20-Feb-07, at 11:56 AM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Free software is similar to public domain software? Or is BSD similar to public domains software? Are you serious?
The BSD License is almost a Public Domain license.
and what, precisely, is a 'Public Domain license'? Kindly attempt to distinguish between a license, which BSD is, and an absence of license, which is Public Domain. License is based on copyright, or ownership. Public domain is the relinquishment of copyright - relinquishment of ownership. The question of license only arises in the case where the author asserts copyright. It cannot arise in the case of Public Domain where there is *no* copyright. So the very phrase 'Public domain license' is an oxymoron. (and if you are continuing this debate, please, please, dont quote wikipedia)
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.
Regards, BG
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