27 Jun
2011
27 Jun
'11
10 p.m.
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:05 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
and there's some question of whether code can be put into the public domain.
IANAL but I don't think that's true. Anything that can have copyright and thus an owner, can have a public domain declaration and thus be in the public domain.
Your only problem with this code-base is that keeping it public domain requires that all coders who make changes to the code are aware that they're required to release copyright on that part of their code (or the code becomes gpl as soon as it's modified). Which gets messy, nasty and ambiguous.
Best to relicense GPLv2+, but check with the SFLC, they'll know best.
Martin,