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From gstring.h: > Copyright 1988-90 by Robert B. Stout dba MicroFirm > * > * Released to public domain, 1991 However the header and readme state MIT license.
by simfoo 4y ago
From gstring.h:
> Copyright 1988-90 by Robert B. Stout dba MicroFirm
> *
> * Released to public domain, 1991
However the header and readme state MIT license. You can't just release public domain code under a new license right?
- bonzini 4y agoThis is a derivative so yes, you can (just like you can release derivatives of MIT-licensed code[1] under a license that doesn't let the recipient receive the source code, or conversely under a copyleft license). [1] "derivatives" include compiled binaries
- gpvos 4y agoThe point of public domain code is that you can do anything with it that you want. You could even release it under the GPL.
- seba_dos1 4y agoGenuine question - what do you think "public domain" means?
- n0tth3dro1ds 4y agoThe mental model of GPL cancer has infected the concept of public domain
- simfoo 4y agoThe problem is more that "public domain" is a concept that is not universally accepted in a legal sense, examples are Europe and in particular Germany. Case in point, Sqlite had to come up with a license agreement to make it usable for companies in those countries.
- gpvos 4y agoPublic domain exists everywhere, but the concept of releasing something into the public domain by choice doesn't, so in those jurisdictions something only officially enters the public domain some time after either the author's death or publication.