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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (R Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:50:35 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9208182150.43@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <1992Aug17.162946.7751@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug17.191129.19698@nrao.edu> <1992Aug18.015903.8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <7238@skye.ed.ac.uk> Lines: 16 In article <7238@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <1992Aug18.015903.8526@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >>Because Hurd is an OS, does this mean that *any* application that runs on it >>is a derivitive work and falls under GNU Public License? > >No, no more than any application that runs under SunOS falls under Sun's >licence. > >It would probably be better if you didn't suggest this to USL's lawyers :-) At this point, since the Hurd is only vaporware, this doesn't matter. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP