Re: DJB's software components

[Tom Lane <tgl redhat com>]

"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa redhat com> writes:
> Recently, most (all?) of Dan Bernstein's software was relicensed into
> the public domain.

> Please hold off on packaging and submitting these packages for review
> into Fedora, pending legal advice as to whether he can actually do that
> or not, under US law.

[ blink... ]  I would be interested to know what legal theory claims
that DJB cannot relicense his own work.

			regards, tom lane