Le Monday 28 January 2002 à 09:28:19, David Corcoran a écrit:
> > why don't you licence the skeleton as public domain ?
>
> Last time I checked BSD was a public domain license.

BSD is not a public domain licence or maybe you can give me pointers (I
am not a lawyer).

According to [1]:
 « Public Domain.

   Being in the public domain is not a license--rather, it means the
   material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically
   speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well
   have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public domain
   status is compatible with the GNU GPL. »

And according to [2]:
 « For the most part, the software constituting the NetBSD operating
   system is not in the public domain; its authors retain their copyright. »

Your licence imposes restrictions and a copyright. So it cannot be
considered Public Domain.

I agree that using a Public Domain licence for the skeleton may be a
good idea if you want it to be used in proprietary codes (that may be
limited by your publicity clause).

Regards,

[1] http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html
[2] http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html

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