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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GPL (was Re: Linux vs FreeBSD)
Date: 24 Dec 1995 02:10:31 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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Message-ID: <4bicqo$fnp@shore.shore.net>
References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <4b67mo$19l@dyson.iquest.net> <4bbs2d$bet@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> <4bdde6$ht@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4bdq00$18r@klaava.helsinki.fi>
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Linus Torvalds wrote in article <4bdq00$18r@klaava.helsinki.fi> :
>I _like_ the BSD license: it makes sense. It's simple, it's clear, and
>it does what lots of people want.
Which is exactly everything that the GPL is not.
> I'd be ready to use that license for my code, any day.
Please do. The world will be a better place if you do.
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