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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry
  3. From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
  4. Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.210036.17095@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
  6. Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
  7. Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
  8. References: <l8n8qcINN2c5@neuro.usc.edu> <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com>
  9. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 21:00:36 GMT
  10. Lines: 30
  11.  
  12. In article <63DILTJ@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
  13. >In article <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
  14. >>Try to think a little more clearly.  It is the ABSENCE of copyleft
  15. >>that leads to the possibility of non-freely-redistributable versions.
  16. >>The copyleft was designed to prevent that from happening.  If 386bsd
  17. >>was copylefted, these flames wouldn't be happening.
  18. >
  19. >If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
  20. >that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
  21. >benefiting from it.
  22.  
  23. Here, here!  It is difficult to contribute anything to an assembly of
  24. "copyleft" code without violating "copyleft" or incorporating the
  25. restrictions so as to apply to your own code.
  26.  
  27.     Or, put another way:  It's hard to contribute code to Linux and
  28. Berkeley (or anything else) at the same time.
  29.  
  30.  
  31.                     Terry Lambert
  32.                     terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
  33.                     terry@icarus.weber.edu
  34. ---
  35. Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
  36. or previous employers.
  37. -- 
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  39.                                                        terry@icarus.weber.edu
  40.  "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me
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