On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:25:46 -0400 sda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:48:55PM -0800, civileme wrote: > > sda wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > > > > > >I don't think anybody is worried about people giving it away > > >sans the Mandrake specific tools [if they were copyrighted - > > >unfortunately they aren't now]. FWIU GPL allows this, doesn't > > >it? > > > > > > > They have copyright notices. Look at the source. Mandrake > > Tools are copyrighted, and licensed under GNU GPL, and > > Mandrakesoft is the copyright holder. > > I stand corrected. Might be something for MandrakeSoft to > consider[making them proprietary that is]. Probably work better > with something like the BSD license however. At the least they > should make the current distro only available to paying > customers. Uh if they go BSD then I can take the software they write and put it under my own proprietory license without regard to the original owners. BSD is not more restrictive. In fact it simply says "Here's the code do whatever you want." James > > -- > SDA > ICQ 35454764 > >
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