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- From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Message-ID: <1561@hcshh.hcs.de>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 17:47:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- In <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
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- >In article <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
- >>In <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
- >Aaaagggghhhhh! If everyone starts putting their own copyrights in the code
- >we might as well all buy BSD386. When a university wants to start using a
- >software package, the u lawyers have to evaluate all of the licensing/copyright
- >garbage associated with it. If they have to evaluate every file on an
- >individual basis, possibly having to contact > 100 people, institutional use
- >of 386bsd is threatened.
-
- ok, you are right, i didn't had a look at it from this side.
-
- but, what can be done to stop those money-makers from selling something which
- ought to be free, and give people who just want to USE it, the chance of
- getting/using/modifying/etc. it in whatever way they like ?
-
- or, shall i just don't care about the money-makers ?
-
- or, not posting software ?
-
- or, what ?
-
- in my understanding, if one sells something, what someone else "made", that
- someone has a right to get at least some of the money from the one who sold it.
-
- (i don't want money from someone, i just want that when i give something for
- free, that it stays free!)
-
- if the one who "made" something, gave it away for free, then everyone giving
- it away has to give it for free.
-
- or did i miss something ?
-
- just asking,
- hellmuth
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