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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Message-ID: <1993Apr23.073110.14397@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Organization: University of Helsinki
References: <C5qCnn.5Kw@sugar.neosoft.com> <D87-MAL.93Apr19230114@byse.nada.kth.se> <C5wCM5.DDI@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 07:31:10 GMT
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peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You chose to give up ownership of your code to the FSF.

Not correct.  Putting code under the GPL does not make it the property
of the FSF.

Other than that, I agree with Peter, as much as I prefer the GPL over
the BSD copyright.  There's no need to flame people if they don't
copyright _their_ stuff the way you prefer.  There is no objective
truth that says that the GPL is better than any other copyright, it
all depends on what you want to allow others to do.

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
   MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.