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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 5 Dec 1995 16:30:10 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <DJ3DM7.n0L@kroete2.freinet.de>,
Erik Corry <erik@kroete2.freinet.de> wrote:
> You say the FreeBSD kernel is 'unencumbered with the GPL'. The GPL
> may be an encumberance to you, but to Linux/GNU developers, the
> BSD license is also an encumberance: which means you can't use
> BSD code in the Linux kernel or in a GPL'ed application.

How do you figure that?
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