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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
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Date: 17 Dec 1995 22:06:15 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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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
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