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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2896 comp.os.linux.misc:20542 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com!not-for-mail From: jclf@kaiwan.com (Jason Fordham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Date: 29 Jul 1994 12:13:41 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/452-9166) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31bkd5$76h@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <1994Jul26.165729.12612@rosevax.rosemount.com> <michaelv.775258457@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Jul28.185721.25480@rosevax.rosemount.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com I've been reluctant to enter this silly thread - even long posts to it have hypocritical "don't waste net bandwidth" remarks - but there is (to my mind) a perfectly good reason why FSF would maintain a distance from 386BSD-derived code. It might help to recall this. In order to publish code fragments in Dr. Dobbs, the Jolitzen decided not to GPL their code. The GPL prohibits code extracts: if you want to publish a bit of GPL'd code, you have to publish the whole file. Perhaps this is closer to the 'letter of the law' than the intent, but that's the way I recall the interpretation of the wording. I think there was a discussion of the issues involved in a box. Jason Fordham (I don't care what's running the apps I want to run, as long as they run)