[Legal-general] Introduction

[Simon Ward]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:39:44AM +0200, Nic Roets wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:20 AM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> > It's already duplicated many times over isn't it?
> >
> 
> If only the founder of OSM had the vision to see that PD leads to less
> duplication...

That’s contentious at best.  While not all necessarily PD, there are
very many separately maintained permissively (or non, i.e. real PD)
licensed pieces of software, and it’s not clear that copyleft makes a
difference in this regard.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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