That's odd. The terms "public domain" and "copyright" are mutually exclusive. Stanford University defines public domain this way:
The term "public domain" refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it. <http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/8-a.html> Since the author placed it in the public domain, you're free to use it without any restrictions or attribution. -Ken Jackson Gudjon I. Gudjonsson writes: > Hi > The following licensing statement in the sdcc files was pointed > at me by coincidence: > "The ASxxxx assemblers and the ASLINK relocating linker are > placed in the Public Domain. Publication or distribution of > these programs for non-commercial use is hereby granted with the > stipulation that the copyright notice be included with all > copies." > I am using SDCC for commercial (but still no profit :) purposes. > I don't know how to write a linker but I would be willing to pay some > amount of money to someone willing to write it under some sensible > licence, compatible with the SDCC licencing. That is to say if this > statement is a real problem. > > Regards > Gudjon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
