[98558] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Lotus is porting their prog's...!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Mon Nov 9 18:01:00 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 23:09:54 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <003001be0c0d$eb30baa0$0a6464c7@acheron.chessor>
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At 10:17 1998-11-09 -0800, antonyc3@integritas.com wrote:
><< IMHO its software may become very expensive now, because Intel and
>Netscape will want to return more money from that investment. Nevertheless
>we can turn to the Linux that is free forever (debian). >>
>
>Tim,
>
>I understand your concern, but you (and others) really **really** should
>read the GNU public license that RedHat is bound to, no more or less than
>Debian or anyone else. If they don't offer it for free, they don't get to
>call it Linux...period. Besides which, after seeing the stink that people
>here raise for anyone wanting to not release the source codes, etc., do
you
>really think that they'd stay in business 1 year if they didn't offer it
for
>free downloads and provide the source? <G>
Actually it's even worse than that. Not releasing code for products based
on GPL code is a license violation. Any company that does this could
concievably find itself in court.
Tony
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