[JDEV] Resolution of Licence issues..

[Daniel Arbuckle]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Oliver Jones wrote:
> At 02:10 AM 10/12/99 -0500, Jeremie wrote:
> >> I would like to take this point and note the protocol does not need to be
> >> patented or GPL'ed. (in fact, I would argue against both!)
> 
> It seems to me that your objective is to make the protocol itself
> completely open to use by anyone for anything.  I don't think you should
> leave this to chance, as would happen if you simply omitted any discussion
> of a license.

You _can't_ copyright a protocol.

Daniel