From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 12:16:07 GMT
In article <1993Apr17.175431.25015@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>And then Linux and the GNU folks will take what 386BSD has done and
>restrict it. Now, isn't that nice....... taking my work and restricting
>it. I always thought that was awful kind of them. (NOT!)
>
All of the BSD derived code within the Linux utilities is still under the
UCB license. If you are worried about your own work then include your own
license that makes it free, requires whatever redistribution you want but
does not place it in the public domain. A lot of people do this, and any
code under that form of license you cannot just alter and 'Gnuify' as it
would be a derivative work of your original. A lot of well known software
is redistributed this way. The important thing is that you make it freely
redistributable (barring your own restrictions) and _NOT_ public domain.
Alan