From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 11 02:07:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23384 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA23378 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 16120 invoked from network); 11 Feb 1999 10:07:45 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 11 Feb 1999 10:07:45 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA03790; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:07:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902111007.FAA03790@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Linus on IRC In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990210155320.03fc67f0@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 10, 99 03:55:08 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:07:46 -0500 (EST) Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, thallgren@yahoo.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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