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Re: most liberal license



[I think we may be saying the same thing here, but I thought some
clarification was necessary.]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> You can never take someone else's work, place restrictions on it and
> sell it.

You can if the license allows it.

> if a work is in the public domain, nobody can. 

Again, you can do the same with a public domain work.

That being said, nothing is stoping people from returning the work to
its previous status (by removing whatever you did, if anything) and
redistributing that under the original terms. [If that's what you
meant, I'm sorry for being obtuse. ;-)]


Don Armstrong

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