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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35154 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1784 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!clarkson!news.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <NELSON.93Apr20133313@cheetah.clarkson.edu> Date: 20 Apr 93 18:33:13 GMT References: <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <D87-MAL.93Apr18165428@byse.nada.kth.se> <C5p4Ix.G9n@sugar.neosoft.com> Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: peter@NeoSoft.com's message of Sun, 18 Apr 1993 20:20:56 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu In article <C5p4Ix.G9n@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > I also don't understand why you think it's ok for a developer to > take the BSD code, add their own fixes to it without making them > available, and then sell the system binary only with the most > restricting copyright notice you can imagine, Gee, I don't recall Sun claiming they owned *my* code because I linked it with their toolkits. Oh foo, Peter. No one is claiming ownership rights to *your* code should you link it with a GPL library. They are just putting conditions on your right to copy *their* code which gets linked into your program. -- --russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Businesses persuade; Governments force.