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From: | John Hasler |
Subject: | Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- InformationWeek: "Pick Your Open Source Poison: Microsoft's Patent Claims Or GPLv3" |
Date: | Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:23:28 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) |
Lee Hollaar writes: > But the thing I was thinking about if the House bill had passed was that > any contribution by a government contractor (like a university research > project) would be in the public domain. How might that affect the GPL, > and if it did, would it mean the loss of a great source of GPLed works? It would probably have resulted in a net gain. Many programs that are now closed source would have entered the public domain where improved versions could subsequently have been released under the GPL. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
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