1. Re: Open Source
- Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net>
Sep 24, 2006
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Last edited Sep 25, 2006
Mike Nelson wrote:
>
> I'm quite happy about Rob's decision to go open source. Phiosophically, I love
> open source but dislike the FSF's "Proprietary Software Is Evil" mantra;
> however,
> the LGPL is fine, as are several alternatives. My only concern about PD is
> whether
> a nefarious person could grab onto Eu, make some changes and copyright it,
> shutting
> the rest of us out. If this is not legally possible, then PD is totally fine
> with me.
Public domain means it belongs to everyone. A person could copyright their
modified version, but the originally released source would always be PD.
