foremost legality (GPL vs Public Domain)

[Patrick Barnes]

To start, IANAL.

Generally speaking, a program as a whole is not what is licensed, it is
the code.  You can combine code under assorted licenses, but the
resulting product is limited to the most restrictive possible subset of
those licensing terms.  In the case of public domain and GPL, the GPL is
the more restrictive license.  The public domain code remains public
domain.  The GPL code remains GPL'd.  The resulting program can be
released as open-source, and the terms of the GPL must be abided by for
the GPL'd code.  If someone were to remove the GPL'd code, they could
then do as they please with the public domain code.  The public domain
is GPL-compatible.  IANAL, but I believe you can safely package the
program for inclusion in Extras.

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Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com

www.n-man.com
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