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--- Comment #24 from Mark Johnson <johnsonm(a)gmail.com> 2009-03-06 12:11:55 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #21)
This is generally how the GPL works.
If you take file A, which is under Public Domain (all rights granted to
everyone) and file B, which is under some version of the GPL, and you compile
them together to generate binary C, binary C is under the terms of the GPL,
because the GPL is by far the more restrictive license, and the terms of file
A are all being met by it.
I didn't ask about a hypothetical binary C. To use your terminology for this
thought experiment, do the terms of the GPL apply to file A, if file A and only
file A, is obtained from pjp's djbdns-1.05.1.tar.gz, which includes a copy of
v3 of the GPL?
No, but I'm pretty sure the latest release for all of his code
drops took out
the copyright statement. He has also issued blanket
To my knowledge, the last release of djbdns was 8 years ago and he did not
issue a new release when he abandoned his copyright. The tarball at:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
still contains this in the README:
djbdns 1.05
20010211
Copyright 2001
D. J. Bernstein
Thus, there is no need to retain his copyright statement, as it
clearly no
longer applies. To re-add it would be incorrect and misleading.
I did not say his copyright statement should be retained. I'm just trying to
say that when it is removed (as it already has been), his declaration at
http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
should be referenced explicitly.
Given that he has abandoned copyright entirely, he no longer has any
say in
what anyone does with it.
No, but it's no excuse to get sloppy and give people the wrong idea, either.
I've got my own public domain fork of djbdns and I would very much appreciate
it if pjp was very clear that the original material he based his fork on was
public domain.
In any event, we're seriously cluttering this bug/ticket up. Suggest we take
any further discussions elsewhere or just table them.
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