Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Public Domain.

Author:	David McCusker
Posted:	9/10/2000; 3:54:19 PM
Topic:	Guido and Richard
Msg #:	21137 (In response to 21135)
Prev/Next:	21135 / 21138

The significance of the license is the following.

If you want comments, the code is copyrighted but you can do just about whatever you want except alter the copyright or license.

If you want public domain, all the comments must go.

Thus there is an incentive to keep the comments which are useful, but one can still have totally operative code with no constraints at all when this is really necessary.

The net effect is that the comments are copyrighted and licensed, while the code is not, since one can get a public domain copy of the code.

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