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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) 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: 31 Jan 1997 15:16:13 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5ctuft$s4p@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cmiv4$iuf@garuda.synet.net> <5cmvnk$kkh@cynic.portal.ca> <5cr297$ied@garuda.synet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155551 comp.os.linux.networking:66908 comp.os.linux.setup:94945 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2183 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51567 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264873 In article <5cr297$ied@garuda.synet.net>, Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> wrote: :In article <5cmvnk$kkh@cynic.portal.ca>, :Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote: :>In article <5cmiv4$iuf@garuda.synet.net>, :>Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> wrote: :> :>>Then why did you add the 500 lines of GPL'ed code? :> :>In fact I didn't, because of the licence. I spent time re-writing :>that code that I would have otherwise spent on writing software to :>the community. So, due to the GPL, the community lost 500 lines of :>free software. :> :You made a decision based on your needs -- no problem. I'm afraid :I don't follow the reasoning in your last sentence; the 500 lines :of GPL'ed code that you had considered using are still there, and :are still available to the cummunity. In what sense are they ``lost''? They are not lost. It's the 500 lines of code I would have written and contributed to the community if I hadn't had to re-write the GPL'd code that are lost. :If you were planning to release the product to the "community" anyway :(if not, then how would the "community" lose anything) then the GPL :shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. Wrong. I like to release truly free software. The GPL doesn't let me do that. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.