Re: ANN: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[Kulin <remailer@reece.net.au>]

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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:

> Le 28/05/2012 12:08, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
> > This release is packaged for Windows, Fedora (yum) and Debian (apt). The
> > software is public domain (licensed under GM GPL).
> Just to be picky: if it's licensed under GMGPL, it's free software, but
> it's not public domain.

Just to be picky, if it's licensed under GMGPL it is not free software, it's
GPL software. GPL is a viral, forcible open source license. It has nothing
to do with freedom. GPL software is open source, but it's not free.

There are free software licenses such as BSD and MIT.

> Public domain means that you give up all your intellectual rights
> (possibly allowing someone to take your work and putting a restrictive
> license upon it). 

I thought the GPL was about intellectual rights denial, so it's a bit hard
to understand your two comments at the same time. Nevertheless, the public
domain copy remains and people are free to use it or not, however they
wish. They can relicense their copy or modifications they make but it
doesn't cause the public domain instance to become encumbered.

Richard Hipp didn't go broke placing sqlite and fossil in the public domain.