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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 12 Feb 1997 17:14:35 +0100 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5dsq9b$lig@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5claa2$jq1@cynic.portal.ca> <5dask0$13q0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32FB11D7.3AE9@umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158763 comp.os.linux.networking:68595 comp.os.linux.setup:97621 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6015 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2523 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:53139 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267905 Hello! In article <32FB11D7.3AE9@umich.edu>, Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> wrote: >[...] >I think it is quite reasonable. Why should the person who wrote the >five hundred lines of code have it incorporated into someone's >proprietary code? Say, if AT&T wrote that five-hundred lines of code, >they might be VERY unhappy if yuo didn't follow their terms. It's partly reasonable. If I use e.g. the Elisp engine from Emacs into a large project of mine, by the current GPL, I have to put all *my* code under the GPL, too, even if that is e.g. 20 times more than the GPL code I used. My understanding of reasonable in GPL philosophy were to have to redistribute the used GPL code as source (or linkable objects with the offer to redistribute source), and licence my code as I want to. Regards, Felix.