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DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain

Posted by Zonk on from the play-freebird dept.

A Sage Developer writes "During a recent conference, Sage Days 6, Dan Bernstein (who has recently come under attack for his licensing policy) was among the invited speakers. During a panel discussion on the future of open source mathematics software, Bernstein declared that all of his past and future code would be released to the public domain. This includes qmail, primegen, and a number of other projects. Given the headache that incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2 is causing developers, will we see more of this?"

4 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. Still a dick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wanted to get that in there.

  2. Re:OK so when exactly? by lukas84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exchange!

  3. Re:OK so when exactly? by claytonjr · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could swap to the pony express?

  4. Re:In a word... by synthespian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shhh...Don't argue with religious people!
    Fanatics of the Church of Stallman aren't capable of logic.
    Besides, they think that "freedom" refers to objects and not to people.

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    Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts