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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35480 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1868 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 18:04:11 GMT Message-ID: <C5wCv0.DJ2@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <D87-MAL.93Apr18165428@byse.nada.kth.se> <C5p4Ix.G9n@sugar.neosoft.com> <NELSON.93Apr20133313@cheetah.clarkson.edu> Lines: 20 In article <NELSON.93Apr20133313@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: > 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. I'm happy to distribute the source to *their* code, under *their* terms, so long as I can retain ownership of *my* code. I'm glad that after gobs of pressure like this the FSF has bent enough to allow us to do this, at least for some packages. Maybe one day the rest of the GPL will become equally reasonable. In the meantime, quit putting pressure on us to include GPL code that *isn't* under the LGPL in 386BSD. Is it a deal? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` My Apple-II has more RAM than my Mac!