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Bob Young writes a letter to Darl

Bob Young writes a letter to Darl

Posted Dec 13, 2003 12:47 UTC (Sat) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Bob Young writes a letter to Darl by danw6144
Parent article: Bob Young writes a letter to Darl

If the licence in question was a BSD licence, would your imaginary case be any different? I think not - BSD licence imposes different conditions, but it does impose them. And it seems that the judge in BSD v USL case thought that the licence is quite valid.

I don't see how GPL would be different in that regard. For that matter, people have been mentioning (especially ESR) licensing Linux kernel under a new "Open Software Licence", which doesn't seem any different either in that regard.

I was just wondering what you think of the above...


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