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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <63DILTJ@taronga.com>
Date: 16 Aug 92 02:04:55 GMT
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Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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In article <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
>Try to think a little more clearly. It is the ABSENCE of copyleft
>that leads to the possibility of non-freely-redistributable versions.
>The copyleft was designed to prevent that from happening. If 386bsd
>was copylefted, these flames wouldn't be happening.
If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
benefiting from it.
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