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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!taronga!peter
  3. From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
  4. Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
  5. Message-ID: <63DILTJ@taronga.com>
  6. Organization: Taronga Park BBS
  7. References: <x> <l8n8qcINN2c5@neuro.usc.edu> <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu>
  8. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:04:55 GMT
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  11. In article <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
  12. >Try to think a little more clearly.  It is the ABSENCE of copyleft
  13. >that leads to the possibility of non-freely-redistributable versions.
  14. >The copyleft was designed to prevent that from happening.  If 386bsd
  15. >was copylefted, these flames wouldn't be happening.
  16.  
  17. If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
  18. that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
  19. benefiting from it.
  20.  
  21.  
  22. -- 
  23.                                                                 `-_-'
  24.                          Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`
  25.  
  26. Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
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