Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: PD (was Why I do not...) Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 89 11:21:00 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <4426@yunexus.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 27 In-reply-to: oz@yunexus.UUCP's message of 17 Oct 89 15:11:22 GMT In article <4426@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: > >The problem with public domain code is this: If I want my code to be >and remain freely available, I can't put it in the public domain. If >I do, someone can take my code and mix it with theirs. My code effectively >becomes theirs. This is not acceptable to me. It is to me. Right. What we have here is a difference of opinion about whether this is acceptable or not. In fact, the whole misinformation bit about PD stuff is quite tiring. But it is *not* misinformation. If *I* want all of my code to be distributed with source, and someone uses some code that I have put into the PD and, for whatever reasons of their own, refuses to distribute source, I have no recourse. They are using my code in a way that is anathema to me. I accept that you don't care if some/all of your code is distributed without source. I presume that you accept that I *do* care. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.