From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 22:52:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA18569 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA18562 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA19342 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 07:52:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA25734; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 07:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970917073823.FM53423@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 07:38:23 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Testimonial References: <199709160325.VAA00369@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199709161255.IAA03499@gatekeeper.itribe.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709161255.IAA03499@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Sep 16, 1997 09:03:49 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)