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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LINUX DISK AVAILBLE IN CANADA
- Keywords: linux disks available
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.161509.2240@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:15:09 GMT
- References: <jen.712077777@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Jul27.144756.18648@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > I thought of doing this, but decided that someone would probably
- >complain about profiteering or some such. Getting the stuff onto disk in
- >the first place is enough hassle to keep people from doing it, so I
- >think it would be good for linux in general, but people are too
- >political to make it practical. And someone would probably say that you
- >have to include the source with the binary rather than make it
- >available, which drives the price up by the cost of more disks...
-
- This was discussed a long time ago in comp.os.linux (in addition to the
- weekly flame wars about GPL in general in gnu.misc.discuss). There is
- nothing in the GPL that says that you can't do this, as long as you make
- sources available (they don't have to be on every distribution). If
- people don't like that, they shouldn't use GPL and should avoid
- contributing to GPL'd software by others. Life is tough.
-
- I have the impression that Linus doesn't mind in the least if you do it.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-