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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Dillon
> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 12:59 AM
> To: Peter Seebach
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT
>
>
> You guys can argue the GPL thing to death and still not come to
> a resolution. How many commercial products are
> running on top of Linux and not sharing their source? Lots.
> See any lawsuits flying?
>
Since when is a product required to be open source to run on Linux? My
understanding was if an product was developed using GPL'd code or
libraries then that product is required to offer source. But just an
application running on Linux, that will kill Linux.
I ran into people at NASA who use Python because (beside being a good
language) it isn't GPL. For legal and security reason they cannot
share changes to code they make, so anything GPL is unusable.
So are programs that run on Linux required to be open source? I need
to know.
Steve B.
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