[Bug 480724] Review Request: djbdns - A Domain Name System by D. J. Bernstein

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--- Comment #17 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>  2009-03-05 15:34:45 EDT ---
The original public domain work is Public Domain. A modified, or derived work,
can be under any license that the new author of the work wants. Since Public
Domain is not a license, but the absence of a license (or if it helps you wrap
your brain around it, the granting of all possible rights), it doesn't matter.

My comments reflected upon an entirely Public Domain work, because we need to
track that in the spec file somehow. If someone came along and made changes to
a public domain work under GPLv2+, it would be fine to say:

License: GPLv2+

because that is in every way functionally identical to:

License: GPLv2+ and Public Domain

As to removing DJB's copyright notice, DJB did that. It would be nice to
reference his message in which he took that action.

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