[103966] in Cypherpunks
Re: propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Wed Oct 7 07:25:46 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:11:32 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: coderpunks@toad.com
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
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
