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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (R
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:02:22 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208192303.21@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Aug18.015903.8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Aug18.234401.2087@nrao.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.234401.2087@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
- >In article 8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >>Does [the GPL] mean that I can't sell my own program (we'll call it '/usr/bin/true')
- >>for $500.00, and then give away GNU Hurd in order to run it, but don't tell
- >>anyone what the program is (except you all know now ;-)), offer to send source,
- >>like in GPL, but say they can't copy it because they can't distinguish my
- >>part from GNU's part?
- >
- >You don't have to supply source for your own /usr/bin/true because you stuck
- >it in the same packet with the GNU Hurd (unless of course it is a modified
- >version of a GNU /usr/bin/true). You still have to supply source for the
- >Hurd and you can not restrict the rights of anyone who gets the source from
- >you to make further copies of the Hurd source.
- >
- >>Because Hurd is an OS, does this mean that *any* application that runs on it
- >>is a derivitive work and falls under GNU Public License?
- >
- >No. Even a lawyer would think that that was silly.
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- From what I understand, the Hurd, in and of itself, is not really an OS,
- but a UNIX-like environment that will sit on top of Mach 3.0. Part of the
- duo will be controlled by CMU licensing specifications, and part by the
- GPL. Since the Hurd will assuredly use the GNU libc.a, it would seem that
- all binaries would come under the separate GPL library license. What is the
- difference between the libc.a license and the "normal" GPL?
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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