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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP Needed: Linux & BSD Unix
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:13:24 -0700
Organization: Me
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J Wunsch wrote:
] csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) wrote:
]
] > Our friend, mark@www.netgoth.com (Mark Menard), wrote:
] >
] > > FreeBSD and Linux are both freeware.
] >
] > this is _very_ false. the linux kernel is gpl'ed. all of
] > FreeBSD is either under a BSD style license or a GPL. This
] > makes them freely redistributeable, but _not_ freeware.
]
] ``Freely redistributable'' is what ``freeware'' means. What
] you've meant is ``public domain'', where the author even
] doesn't care about mentioning his authorship.
]
] Of course, {Free,Net,Open}BSD and Linux _are_ freeware.
I thought "freely redistributable" meant "without obligation
on the part of the distrubtor". Otherwise there is a cost
associated with redistribution... the obligation incurred.
For GPL, this means becoming a distribution center (or
information hub) for a period of two years.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.