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Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
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At 03:50 AM 7/26/2003, Michael Carr wrote:
 
>What's interesting is that Stallman asserts a GPL'd kernel wouldn't be
>necessary to any "GNU operating system" ("Today, GNU runs with various
>kernels . . . It is basically the same system, whichever kernel you use"),
>and that at no point does he assert the moral or political necessity for a
>copylefted mode of licensing, but merely lists provisions common to both the
>GPL and BSDL ("users are free to run it, study it 

No, they're not. They can't study GPLed code without risking
"GPL infection." 

>and change it . . .

Ditto.

>redistribute it . . . 

Not unless they want to give up their rights to their modifications.

--Brett