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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?) Message-ID: <1561@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 15 Aug 92 17:47:28 GMT References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 39 In <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes: >In article <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: >>In <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >Aaaagggghhhhh! If everyone starts putting their own copyrights in the code >we might as well all buy BSD386. When a university wants to start using a >software package, the u lawyers have to evaluate all of the licensing/copyright >garbage associated with it. If they have to evaluate every file on an >individual basis, possibly having to contact > 100 people, institutional use >of 386bsd is threatened. ok, you are right, i didn't had a look at it from this side. but, what can be done to stop those money-makers from selling something which ought to be free, and give people who just want to USE it, the chance of getting/using/modifying/etc. it in whatever way they like ? or, shall i just don't care about the money-makers ? or, not posting software ? or, what ? in my understanding, if one sells something, what someone else "made", that someone has a right to get at least some of the money from the one who sold it. (i don't want money from someone, i just want that when i give something for free, that it stays free!) if the one who "made" something, gave it away for free, then everyone giving it away has to give it for free. or did i miss something ? just asking, hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486