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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GPL (was Re: Linux vs FreeBSD)
Date: 22 Dec 1995 01:40:42 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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Message-ID: <4bd2aq$bpo@shore.shore.net>
References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <4alpl5$a39@klaava.helsinki.fi> <4an3hq$r6l@helena.mt.net> <4art3r$2ap@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <4asahc$e75@helena.MT.net>
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Nate Williams wrote in article <4asahc$e75@helena.MT.net> :
>
>In article <4art3r$2ap@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>,
>Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>}In article <4an3hq$r6l@helena.mt.net>,
>}Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote:
>}> In article <4alpl5$a39@klaava.helsinki.fi>,
>}> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
bleat bleat [etc....] bleat bleat bleat.
This points out another good reason to avoid GPL code: you have
to listen to all the unmitigated bleat from both sides. At least
with the Berkeley copyright you don't get any of that crap.
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