Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this morepalatable?

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL GENERAL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this morepalatable?
Date: 2000-07-05 14:30:42
Message-ID: xuy3dlor6nh.fsf@hoser.devel.redhat.com
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Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:

> This is not something new. SunOS, AIX, HPUX, etc. all have (at
> one time or another) considerable BSD roots. And yet FreeBSD
> still exists... All GPL does is 'poison' the pot by prohibiting
> commercial spawns which may leverage the code.

GPL doesn't prohibit commercial spawns - it just requires you to send
the source along.

--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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