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Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive
pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> > My point was that "uncopyrighted freeware" **IS** public domain software.
> > It's not even possible to acquire a copyright for such software.
>
> However you can later release an enhanced version, and have those
> enhancements copyrighted.
And preventing people from doing that is part of what the GPL (GNU
Public License) is about. Loosely speaking, code that uses GPLed
software automatically becomes GPLed itself.
Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net