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Re: [Groff] GPL or FDL


From: James K. Lowden
Subject: Re: [Groff] GPL or FDL
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:40:33 -0500

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:48:20 +0100 (CET)
"Bernd Warken" <address@hidden> wrote:

> By public domain, the OS Unix is free for all, so it is free for me.
> So it belongs to me.  So I am free to say that it is no more free to
> anyone else

A copyrighted publication can include works in the public domain, but
those works remain in the public domain.  

> groff is a GNU project, so the owner is FSF (Free Software
> Foundation). So there must be a license of the FSF, either GPL or
> FDL.  

Ah, so there's no alternative.  That settles the question.  Thank you
for clearing that up for me.  

--jkl



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