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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 21:00:36 GMT
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In article <63DILTJ@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.
Here, here! It is difficult to contribute anything to an assembly of
"copyleft" code without violating "copyleft" or incorporating the
restrictions so as to apply to your own code.
Or, put another way: It's hard to contribute code to Linux and
Berkeley (or anything else) at the same time.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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