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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 06:28:23 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32FB11D7.3AE9@umich.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5ciraf$gs@cynic.portal.ca> <32EE0B70.1657@ml.com> <5claa2$jq1@cynic.portal.ca> <5dask0$13q0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Reply-To: tmwatson@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: nubs64.ccs.itd.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156543 comp.os.linux.networking:67470 comp.os.linux.setup:95798 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5896 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2308 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52038 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266053 bill davidsen wrote: > Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote: > | you must give away those changes. But I should think hardly anyone > | would think it reasonable to say that if you integrate five hundred > | lines of GPL'd source into a ten thousand line program you wrote > | yourself, you must now give away those ten thousand lines of code > | you wrote. Yet that's exactly what the GPL says. I think it is quite reasonable. Why should the person who wrote the five hundred lines of code have it incorporated into someone's proprietary code? Say, if AT&T wrote that five-hundred lines of code, they might be VERY unhappy if yuo didn't follow their terms. -Tim Watson