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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!cloudbreak.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> 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: GPL Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 01:22:22 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32FC1B9E.443B@umich.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <5db0q8$1f6i@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <5dd2mc$ad5@omega.gmd.de> <32FB2E38.7526@umich.edu> <32FBE02A.2F2C@umich.edu> Reply-To: tmwatson@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: aha411.ccs.itd.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157155 comp.os.linux.networking:67808 comp.os.linux.advocacy:83057 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2413 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52318 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266720 Timothy Watson wrote: > What the heck are you saying when talking about > *published* work? Under what conditions does a company/individual > lose the right to control the redistribution of modified versions > of his/her work. > > More examples: IBM BIOS Source Code, Soon-to be released Caldera > OpenDos source > And the best example: MINIX, free to redistribute for educational purposes on the condition that is left UNMODIFIED. And Linux was written from scratch, BTW, and is not a modification of the MINIX source code. And I am pretty sure that I have read that Prentice-Hall did come down like a ton of bricks on some British foundation that was dis- tributing modified MINIX. (London Users Group or something) So what if someone modified it, that does not automatically give them the right to redistribute the modified source under their own terms. They can supply patches+source code, though. -Tim Watson