From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Here's the article text -- Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 01:22:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010504012202.C2512@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <988925908.1280.42.camel@agate>
In-Reply-To: <988925908.1280.42.camel@agate>; from miles@megapathdsl.net on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 23:38:27 +0200
On 05.03 Miles Lane wrote:
> Sorry for sending a link to a (albeit, free) subcription
> service earlier. Here's the text of the article, in case
> you are interested in Microsoft's latest shinanigans.
>
>
> away in an effort to attract visitors to Web sites. G.P.L. requires
> that any software using source code already covered by the licensing
> agreement must become available for free distribution.
>
AFAIK, GPL only forces you to distribute the source of the GPLed parts
of your soft, not everything.
PLEASE, could any good writer post a commented-rationale of the GPL to
NYT ?
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you...
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-03 21:38 OT: Here's the article text -- Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code Miles Lane
2001-05-03 22:49 ` OT: Here's the article text -- Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Alan Cox
2001-05-03 23:22 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-05-08 2:48 ` RAID question Peter Waltenberg
2001-05-08 15:07 ` Jakob Østergaard
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