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- From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
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- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- References: <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:33:24 GMT
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- In article <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
- > If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
- > that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
- > benefiting from it.
-
- >Please clarify this. How is anyone else prevented from benefitting
- >from it? Say, for example, the same people who now benefit from GCC?
-
- OK, I missed one aspect of this in my previous article. There is a large
- category of people who now benefit from GCC who would not be able to
- benefit from a GPL-covered 386BSD. Next, Sun (In Solaris 2), and I believe
- MIPS ship GCC with their products, in some cases as the primary compilers.
- This sort of distribution is not practical for an operating system.
-
- Mundanes are people too.
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- Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032
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