For Approval: GPLv3

Chris Travers chris.travers at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 21:34:09 UTC 2007


On 9/1/07, Alexander Terekhov <alexander.terekhov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/1/07, David K. Gasaway <dave at gasaway.org> wrote:
> > On 1 Sep 2007 at 21:00, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> >
> > > See up-thread. I personally release my Open Source stuff straight into
> > > public domain with a notice that "This may be used for any purposes
> > > whatsoever without acknowledgment." So I'm not affected.
> >
> > Then what the hell are you doing here?
>
> Just trying to grasp how my work dedicate to public domain could
> possibly fall under the GPL if included in GPL "work as whole".
> "System libraries" exception aside.



I am not sure anyone could actually enforce this as a GPL3 violation because
there is no copyright to enforce. :-)  If we want to discuss the public
domain, let us use a different thread for that :-)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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