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Curt Sampson <
> wrote:
> On 28 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>
> > This means that the Linux world have done everything from scratch, to see
> > if they could do something better than the others...
>
> Err..."no."
>
> The entire Linux kernel is basically done from scrath. Almost all
> of the userland was taken from GNU and BSD work.
Wasn't that what I said? ('Linux' is the kernel, nothing else). The other
things (which I think I think, you think I thought... Hmmmm :) is the
distribution... Debian... Redhat... Slackware... whatever... Isn't Linux
(they uses Linux, but they are not 'Linux'... Does that make sence to anyone..
I'm starting to loose my self her... :)
> > > My only request, should someone do such a rewrite, is to do it in
> > > such a way that we can steal it and wedge it into BSD without too
> > > much dificulty. :-)
> >
> > It's free code... Be my guest... :)
>
> Actually, it's not free code, it's GPLed. One of the things you'd
> have to do to make it free (and usable by BSD folk) would be to
> remove the GPL, as the GPL insists that you change the license of
> other code not owned or written by the coder in questino.
>
> (Thus the term `Gnu Public Virus.' It infects everything it touches.)
I woldn't argue about this, since I don't know enough about the legal
aspects, but we have had quite a discussion about all this (and related)
issue on debian-devel, and my feeling is that your point is not quite true
('The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth')...
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