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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:36123 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2013 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <C63spB.BD@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <C5wFnJ.KMt@cs.columbia.edu> <930425471@monty.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 18:29:35 GMT Lines: 28 In article <930425471@monty.apana.org.au> newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: >bm@shadow.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >> Boy people complain about anything. You charge for software, they say >> it's too much. You give it to them free, they complain they can't do >> whatever they damn well please with the source. > >Straw-man attack. People are complaining about not being able to do whatever >they damn well please WITH THEIR OWN PROGRAMS. First of all, I am not aware of any programs that have been GPLed by anyone other than the author. Could you provide a real example?? No one is forcing anyone to add the GPL to their own program (although some GPL zealots have been known to undiplomatically request the GPL be added). Secondly, let us assume that there are cases where someone incorporates your program into a GPL program of some kind. As I understand it the people who write under the BSD copyright do not mind one bit if some company takes the code that they write and incorporates it into a commercial product. What is the difference between having your BSD copyright software being incorporated into a commercial product over which you have no control and having your BSD copyright software incorporated into a GPL program?? In one case you are proud to have made a contribution, and in the other you feel "ripped off"? -Eric -- "When Grigor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." -F. Kafka