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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:41:28 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <YSDIBS4@taronga.com>
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- In article <YSDIBS4@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >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.
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- And from reading comp.unix.solaris, I get the idea that a number of development
- shops will buy compilers for Solaris 2.0 because of the GNU Copyleft.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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