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zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d 'zoo' zuhn) writes:
>    How could I imprison non-GPL public domain software?
> 
>    The GPL doesn't give any freedom to software which it wouldn't have
>    anyway if it were in the public domain.
> 
> Yes it does.  I can take something that is PD, modify it, and
> copyright and restrict redistribution of my product.

But then your product is a derivative work, not the original software. 
So nothing has been lost from the original software.

> code.  It gives the source a lifetime of freedom, rather than freedom
> in the current version only.

Someone else could implement the same changes as you and release that version
for "free".  So the freedom is not for the "current version only".


mathew

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