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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.
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References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clnn5$r2o@cynic.portal.ca> <slrn5etplt.4k3.wnoise@liquefy.ugcs.caltech.edu> <2krid5.1k.ln@leo>
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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
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Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.