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From: tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Date: 22 Apr 1993 00:59:48 GMT
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jemenake@trumpet.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
>That makes me ill. It really does. When I code stuff and release it to
>the public domain, I stipulate that the stuff is free and is free to
>modify, but ANYTHING that is derived from my code or that USES the
>binaries has to be free as well. I think that the GNU agreement is

If you do this, then you have not released your code into the public
domain.  If you put something in the public domain, then *ANYONE* can
do *ANYTHING* with it.

--Tim Smith