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From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:42:45
Organization: CSUA/UCB
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In-reply-to: peter@taronga.com's message of Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:04:55 GMT
If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
benefiting from it.
Please clarify this. How is anyone else prevented from benefitting
from it? Say, for example, the same people who now benefit from GCC?