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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.edu.tw!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!mr.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!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.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 8 Feb 1997 20:39:29 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5djke1$hl1@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clnn5$r2o@cynic.portal.ca> <slrn5etplt.4k3.wnoise@liquefy.ugcs.caltech.edu> <2krid5.1k.ln@leo> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156961 comp.os.linux.networking:67684 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82917 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2385 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52212 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266478 In article <2krid5.1k.ln@leo>, Ralph Leonhardt <ralle@o-d-s.de> wrote: :You forget one thing: the GPL uses the intellectual ownership laws to :defend the freedom of th code writers. otherwise it would always happen the :same :Someone writes the code, anotherone steals it and the one who wrote it :has no chance to prove that he was the developeir The Berkeley licence provides the same amount of protection in this regard. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.