ANN: Twisted 0.16.0: Licenses and Open Source don't conflict.

[Jeff Shannon]

In article <eGIt8.21408$de1.1000064 at news3.calgary.shaw.ca>, 
bbollenbach at shaw.ca says...
> 
> To "put it into the public domain" the only thing that
> is implicit is the fact that you hold the copyright. When you start
> adding clauses like "feel free to modify and distribute it as you like",
> etc. you've begun to establish it as Open Source (or "Free" depending on
> whose terminology you're more interested in using).

Hm, I always thought that the definition of "Public Domain" was 
that anyone is free to make use of it as they see fit.  For 
instance, books that are in the public domain can be edited and 
republished by whomever so wishes.

Note that the GPL places additional restrictions that Public 
Domain doesn't -- the intent of the GPL is to prevent material 
from being later used in a proprietary product, whereas Public 
Domain has no such restriction.  This doesn't change the fact, 
though, that Public Domain software is Free Software in the FSF 
sense of the word.  

(See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html)

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International