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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 07:38:23 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Testimonial
Message-ID:  <19970917073823.FM53423@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709161255.IAA03499@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Sep 16, 1997 09:03:49 -0400
References:  <199709160325.VAA00369@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199709161255.IAA03499@gatekeeper.itribe.net>

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As Jamie Bowden wrote:

(I20 copyright braindeadness)

> This is one place where the GPL may do some good.  Once one of those
> commercial Linux people join and start diddling the source, they are bound
> by copyleft to distribute it.  Which takes precedence in that case?

The original one, of course.  You cannot obtain rights on `stolen'
things.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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