Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes From: nop@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Jay A. Carlson) Date: 17 Apr 1993 22:14:44
In article <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
No, my purpose is to make 386BSD completely re-distrubutable, with NO
strings attached. That means Sun, DEC, HP, Ren and Stimpy, or whoever
can take this code and sell a binary copy of it. The GPL does not allow
this.
You and I, and your list of luminaries, can sell binary copies of
GPL'd code. What you can't do is sell 'em without source availability.
The original BSD copyright has been this way, but unfortunately a group of
people take the code, fix the code, and then place restrictions on it.
How is this worse than, say, DEC fixing the code and not releasing
source at all?