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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!sundog.tiac.net!tencats.rmkhome.com!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Date: 17 Dec 1995 22:06:15 GMT Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4b248o$23u@sundog.tiac.net> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49rm0g$o8o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <DJ2IBL.71t@nntpa.cb.att.com> <4ah39c$mt3@klaava.helsinki.fi> Reply-To: rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com NNTP-Posting-Host: tencats.rmkhome.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30607 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10638 comp.unix.advocacy:12286 comp.unix.misc:20144 Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : I might as well say the Linux kernel is unencumbered by the BSD : copyright. It cuts either way, and I happen to think that the GPL is : better suited to linux (especially judging by BSD development history). Actually, at this point, the GPL hasn't affected the Linux kernel at all. There aren't any readily available totally incompatible versions of the Linux kernel out there. You have kept control of the Linux kernel, and the main use of the GPL has been to keep CD-ROM distribution compilers from only shipping binary images. Linux is Linux, except for kernel rev differences. -- Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com http://tencats.rmkhome.com