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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:25:00 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite 
Message-ID:  <199908121025.DAA06011@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On 12 Aug 1999 11:01:06 +0200 
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:

 > This prevents you from relicensing BSD software under the GPL. It does
 > not prevent you from selling an OS that has both BSD and GPL bits, as
 > long as the GPL bits come with full source.

If you have an executable object which includes GPL'd code, you must
supply FULL SOURCE for the *entire* object, not just the GPL'd bits.

This is the real crux of the problem; the GPL has a virus-like nature.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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