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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: 386BSD/NetBSD FPU emulator ? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:41:14 GMT Message-ID: <CC40Kr.J9p@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za> <250bgn$r96@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <109524@hydra.gatech.EDU> Lines: 21 In article <109524@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes: > Both are under the GPL. You don't have to ask permission to use them, > unless you have some other political agenda and wish to de-license > the code. Frankly, I'm not comfortable with people saying "We don't > like your choice of license, so could you give us your code *and* > remove the GPL?" Why? There are quite a few people who use the GPL simply because it's already in common use, and are quite happy to make code available under other terms if you ask them. Who's hurt by the asking? In the other direction, I've been asked to put stuff under the GPL. So far I've preferred not to, but I'm not offended by the request. And comparing it to 'ripping out the copyright notices' is just flame bait. Nobody's asking for that (except USL :>). -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."