Evan Prodromou wrote:
This is mostly a question for Erik Moeller and Lee
Daniel Crocker. The
new README in CVS says,
Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik
Moeller are also released into the public domain, wich does
not impair the obligations of users under the GPL for use
of the whole code or other sections thereof.
First, I'm pretty sure you can't release something under the GPL and
also disclaim copyright to it.
You can develop something independently, disclaim copyright to it, and
then incorporate it into a GPL project. (If that was not possible, it
would mean that no GPL project can ever incorporate public-domain code.)
Maybe nobody can use those public-domain pieces because they're pretty
much useless without the rest that is GPL, and is thus pretty much
forced to adhere to the GPL, but that doesn't mean that Erik and Lee
Daniel have to keep their copyright.
Timwi