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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: 17 Aug 92 19:59:02
- Organization: CSUA/UCB
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- In-reply-to: allard@isi.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 22:05:34 GMT
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- True, we don't see examples of shrinkwrapped copylefted stuff at
- the software houses. Maybe a publisher should give it a try!
-
- Yes, we do. See the ads in BYTE and other places from the Austin
- Code Works, for example. Also, Cygnus has discussed doing a retail
- version of GCC like this. There are quite a few duplication joints
- (floppy and cd-rom) which ship copylefted stuff alongside shareware,
- but with no support; maybe that's not what you mean. But there are
- plans afoot to do what you describe, now that you can run most progs
- on mass-market hardware.
-