On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:33:38AM +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > The BSD is not "almost PD", it's a licence, it's not like 
> > expired copyright, even if it seems more "PDish" to you.
> 
> On the scale of PD-ishness BSD is definitely much much more PD than GPL
> in the sense that it alloww the user much more.

I would rephrase it as the restricts the user much less.

> 
> > We definitely can't turn something in 
> > the PD into something proprietary; it's not because we can 
> > use a PD work in our own productions that we are allowed to 
> > claim that this work is ours and 
> > apply any licence we want. A PD work can't have a license 
> > anymore, it's game over.
> 
> No. You can change one letter and claim that change as yours. Everyone
> who wants to build upon your change is bound by your license decisions.
> Contrast this with attempting the same thing with GPLed software.

Bingo. PD is only appropriate when the author absolutely does not care
what is done with the resulting work.

BAJ
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