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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (R Message-ID: <7238@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Aug 92 13:09:36 GMT References: <1992Aug17.162946.7751@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug17.191129.19698@nrao.edu> <1992Aug18.015903.8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 14 In article <1992Aug18.015903.8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >Because Hurd is an OS, does this mean that *any* application that runs on it >is a derivitive work and falls under GNU Public License? No, no more than any application that runs under SunOS falls under Sun's licence. It would probably be better if you didn't suggest this to USL's lawyers :-) -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, AI Applications Institute, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University.