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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:14:58 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <D3P9y0gTzXhE091yn@ibm.net> <5d8aha$9hl@cynic.portal.ca> <5dd0e3$72n@innocence.interface-business.de>
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In article <5dd0e3$72n@innocence.interface-business.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
>
>Part 3 of the BSD license (``All advertising materials...'') did
>indeed conflict with the GPL (which doesn't say anything about such
>things).

So where's the conflict, then? If one of the two licences says you
must do something, there's no conflict unless the other says you
must not do that same thing.

Not that I don't agree that the `This product contains code
contributed by...' lists weren't getting a little long. :-)

cjs
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Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.