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- From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Date: 15 Aug 92 15:11:00
- Organization: CSUA/UCB
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- Message-ID: <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu>
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- In-reply-to: merlin@neuro.usc.edu's message of 14 Aug 92 12:13:00 GMT
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- If people like cgd really feel obligated to contribute
- 'contaminated' code then their contributions should be made
- available separately from the free redistributable core --
- preferably in a separate 'restricted' distribution -- and clearly
- labeled 'infectious waste' -- with ample warnings to future users
- of such code about potential intellectual property rights claims
- and intellectual health risks. In my opinion the same label
- should be applied to anything carrying the even more restrictive
- GNU copyleft.
-
- Try to think a little more clearly. It is the ABSENCE of copyleft
- that leads to the possibility of non-freely-redistributable versions.
- The copyleft was designed to prevent that from happening. If 386bsd
- was copylefted, these flames wouldn't be happening.
-
- Paul Rubin
- Copylefts 'R' Us
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