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Date:      Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:48:32 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        rab@pike.cdrom.com, brett@lariat.org, Dave@Yost.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <36DDF480.A58C372A@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903011927.MAA15288@usr09.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Controversial to whom? It is just a matter of your intended
> > audience, of how you sell this. "In contrast to the GPL license used
> > by Linux, FreeBSD gives preference to the BSD license, meaning that
> > business enterprises can use the source code as it sees fit with no
> > strings attached, besides the copyright notice."
> 
> To make this argument, you need to make the semantic distinction
> between "use" and "utilize".  You are free to utilize Linux, but
> not use Linux source code to prepare proprietary derivative works.

This is stuff to feed the masses. I claim we can get fuzzy here,
because the press would do that anyway.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker."




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