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From: dleblanc@mindspring.com (David LeBlanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:03:14 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>I always suggest passing the GPL by an knowlegeable lawyer who
>understands the industry and the ramifications of the license.
>If GPL is okay for your circumstance, then it is okay (cant
>believe that I said that :-)). Using GPL software "by default"
>as "free" softare might cause some initially unforseen problems.
I have to agree 100% with this one. The product I've been working on
has had some real fits over GPL code. However, one thing I haven't
seen mentioned is that there is also a library license. You can
compile up a library and link with it without the rest of your app
falling under the GLL. If you modified the library, then you'd need
to redistribute that.
Unfortunately, what it boils down to in many, many cases is that all
this "free" software on the net simply cannot be used in a commercial
product at all.
David LeBlanc |Why would you want to have your desktop user,
dleblanc@mindspring.com |your mere mortals, messing around with a 32-bit
|minicomputer-class computing environment?
|Scott McNealy