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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34641 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1676 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <1993Apr17.193029.5707@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: University of Helsinki References: <1qo0lq$1hm4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Apr17.161516.2794@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.175431.25015@coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 19:30:29 GMT Lines: 24 nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >And then Linux and the GNU folks will take what 386BSD has done and >restrict it. Now, isn't that nice....... taking my work and restricting >it. I always thought that was awful kind of them. (NOT!) I would be interested if you would be kind enough to elaborate on this. As far as I know, nothing that Linux or GNU (which have little to do with each other, except that Linux uses a lot of GNU programs) has imported has been made available under a different copyright notice than what the copyright holder (typically the author) has agreed to. Anything else would be illegal. One similar example would be when 386bsd imported Linus' math emulator: the copyright was changed to the same style that the rest of the 386bsd kernel uses, when it originally was under the GPL. (The change was done with Linus' complete approval, I haste to add.) (The article I'm replying to might have been a complete flame-bait, articles of that type usually are, but sometimes I can't resist answering such articles. Color me a sucker.) -- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi) MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.