John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right. The author is forbidden to enforce its copyright. No one else has > any standing to do so. You have no rights to the material: you cannot sue > people who make copies without your permission. Neither can anyone else, > so everybody is free to do as they please with it. Your distribution of > copies of the material with a license attached cannot change that fact.
I think we're in violent agreement there, so let me restate a point which I think we're sticking on: It's possible to a take a public domain work, derive some other work from it (for example, by compiling the program -- perhaps with other changes) and sell it for a lot of money under a restrictive license. -- Raul
