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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:45:50 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
Cc: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: GPL and AI
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Konstantinos Konstantinidis wrote:
> > If the new life form had intimate relations with another AI licensed
> > under, say, a BSD-style license, without protection, would the other
> > AI necessarily become infected with GPL? (What if they merely "look"
> > at each other and get "ideas"?)
> 
> Sounds like the basis for a futuristic rendition of Romeo and Juliet
> to me.

I think that it would be fine, as long as the BSD code agreed
to be circumcised...

-- Terry

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