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To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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At 02:09 PM 12/21/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote:

>No, Brett, that's not what I said.  I said that the *ORIGINAL* work
>by *itself* is not and cannot be tainted by the GPL.  

Of course that's so. But this is not the interesting case.

>Yes, I agree with
>you here that the Linux syslogd (a derivative of Allman's original
>work) is tainted (by some definition of taint) by the GPL.  But the
>original pre-GPL work, which probably still is available in an archive
>somewhere, is not GPL'd.

All the BSDs use derivatives of it. (It really needs a rewrite,
since it has some serious shortcomings, but that's another issue.)

--Brett


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