At 10:58 PM 6/22/97 +1000, Leni Mayo wrote:
>DNAs that
>meet the criteria are accepted into CORE (the equivalent of ADNA) 

A point I feel obliged to make:
  CORE is definitely not the functional equivalent of ADNA, as I understand 
  ADNA

As to the rest of your posting I wonder if your proposal of:

>Any architucture, software, database designs or whatever should be
>placed in the public domain, or under the Free Software Foundation
>copy-left agreement or something analogous to allow everyone to read it
>and understand that it is fair.

is reasonable given that many folk may well be relying on the quality
and support structures for the software?

thanks,

   Geoff