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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 7 Feb 1997 16:58:08 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5dfmv0$c0r@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <m2zpxxtagf.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EE6844.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <E504AI.Jsu@bigbird.telly.org> <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5Pp9y0gTzz1B091yn@ibm.net> <5d81k0$8j4@cynic.portal.ca> <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156648 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2331 evan@bigbird.telly.org (Evan Leibovitch) wrote: > >Let's face it; the GPL does not appear to do any better a job of > >encouraging freely distributable software than the Berkeley-type > >licence does. > > It does, however, seem to attract more participants. I dare to disagree. Most of the users certainly simply don't care about the licensing. Also, if you are going to port an application, you usually don't have to care about the licensing of the underlying OS, but you'll care about the potential number of customers. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j