For Approval: GPLv3

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 9/1/07, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
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> The lack of provenance means that it is generally unsafe to use public

What lack of provenance?

http://terekhov.de/pthread_refcount_t/experimental/refcount.cpp

How does it lack provenance?

> domain software, as one cannot evaluate whether it is all validly in the
> public domain.

I think it is much safer than the case of the GPL software where it
appears simply impossible to evaluate whether it is all validly under
the GPL (and especially by what mechanism it all ended up under the
GPL when original licenses are non-GPL).

regards,
alexander.