17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Rick Campbell wrote:
Public Domain status denotes more freedom than GPL. It allows all of the freedom of GPL and in addition, it allows the freedom of making proprietary modifications.
Logically this is (trivially) true, since PD imposes no conditions while GPL imposes some. One possibility I can imagine is that those who favour GPL and presumably also the ideas behind it could be a bit more motivated to achieve a better quality of the software (including maintenance) than those who put software in the PD. Of course this is just speculation and I have no way of knowing the reality. M. K. Shen