"Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's
> > > no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to
> > > recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product.
> >
> > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to
> > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP
> > stack.
>
> Most likely.
s/steal/use/. We can't champion the BSD (read, "Use this code for
whatever
you want") license then cast aspersions at people who use it for things we
don't like. Let's at least be logically consistent.
Doug
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