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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
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: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 17:56:15 -0500
Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine
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Mouth of the South wrote:
> 
> In article <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca>,
> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote:
> >In article <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net>,
> 
> >>If we try to apply the GPL, which mandates
> >>that source code must be freely available, to BSD licensed derivative
> >>works, which allows it to be secretly hoarded, then GPL would forcibly
> >>overrule the BSD license and nullify its terms.
> >
> >Um...exactly which of the terms would it nullify? (Please quote
> >the exact text.)
> 
> Reason it out.  Mere knowledge that GPL mandates unrestricted access
> to source code of derivative works while BSD doesn't means that the
> two contradict each other on this point.
>
Under GPL you only have to redistribute source code to those that
you have given object code to.  Of course, the recipient of your
source code CAN redistribute the source code of the derived works.
But they will want to maintain good relations with their supplier,
so it is not always likely that the customer (who receives the
source) is going to bother to redistribute it (it is a cost/benefit
tradeoff for them.)  The customer becomes the 'hoarder' then :-).

John