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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!agate!phr From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Date: 17 Aug 92 19:59:02 Organization: CSUA/UCB Lines: 10 Message-ID: <PHR.92Aug17195902@soda.berkeley.edu> References: <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <22221@venera.isi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: allard@isi.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 22:05:34 GMT True, we don't see examples of shrinkwrapped copylefted stuff at the software houses. Maybe a publisher should give it a try! Yes, we do. See the ads in BYTE and other places from the Austin Code Works, for example. Also, Cygnus has discussed doing a retail version of GCC like this. There are quite a few duplication joints (floppy and cd-rom) which ship copylefted stuff alongside shareware, but with no support; maybe that's not what you mean. But there are plans afoot to do what you describe, now that you can run most progs on mass-market hardware.