Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, thallgren@yahoo.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Message-ID: <199902111007.FAA03790@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990210155320.03fc67f0@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 10, 99 03:55:08 pm"
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Brett Glass said: > At 03:22 PM 2/10/99 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > >Sorry to shatter dreams, but Linus has been ignorant in a lot of ways. He > >took Andy's Minix sources, changed them to work for Intel chips, discussed > >this all with Tanenbaum, Andy does however admire the work Linux has done > >but Linus has been an ungrateful `student'. > > What's more, because he looked at Andy's source and made gradual changes > to it, Linux -- as a work -- is a derivative of Minix. Therefore, Andy > has a right to any money that's made from Linux and could actually prohibit > its use or distribution. He could sue Linus for copyright infringement and > Red Hat for contributory infringement. > The above is very interesting. However, that is one reason why software that is licensed under restrictive terms should be shunned when creating free works. Since alot of people, who really understand the ramifications of licenses, consider the GPL to be restrictive, it follows that GPL'ed code should be shunned or ignored as reference implementations. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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