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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!news.zocalo.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GPL (was Re: Linux vs FreeBSD) Date: 18 Dec 1995 04:21:19 GMT Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4b2q7v$aht@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ6IJE.78D@nntpa.cb.att.com> <4a54u5$jj5@josie.abo.fi> <4ahtib$ckq@helena.mt.net> <4alpl5$a39@klaava.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) X-URL: news:4alpl5$a39@klaava.helsinki.fi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30585 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10614 torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) wrote: >[ Now, the argument that some people don't want to distribute sources in > the _first_place_ is another matter, but that's even easier to handle: > don't use a GPL'd base. If you don't want to distribute sources, why > do you think you have any right to use the work of other people? Write > your own code from scratch, and _then_ do a binary-only distribution ] > Hmm... I don't think is a question of right it is more a question of freedom to do whatever you want with the sources. I don't expect you to parse that given that you have an entire GPLed OS distribution. -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD