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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:27:46 +0000 Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:41:00 +0000 > "Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 29/01/07, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Not true. Any non-copyrighted material is, by definition, public > > > domain. > > > > > > You continue to confuse "constricted by" and "under." I give up. > > As Adrian highlighted, free software is constrained by copyright - > copyright is a restrictive law. It prohibits everything then allows > the copyright holder to permit what they want to permit. That is why I > highlighted the BSD licence - it is as permissive as copyright allows > without becoming public domain, yet being that permissive allows > modifications of the code to be made proprietary. Even so, a work > licenced under the BSD licence is STILL constricted by copyright substitute /constricted/ for /constrained/ also each incidence later in the same email. I tried to stick to constrained but the repeated use of 'constricted' in the replies confused me, eventually. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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