Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)
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- Subject: Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)
- From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:10:18 +0000
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Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Patch clauses only prohibit code reuse if your build system is
>> insufficiently complicated.
>
> And you are willing to contain an entire copy of the codebase from
> which you are extracting. [Unless the patch clause is per-file...]
Oh, sure. But bandwidth and disk space are relatively cheap commodities
compared to what they used to be. If the Linux source tree contained an
entire copy of the BSD kernel source, I doubt anyone would really bat an
eyelid. It's certainly an inconvenience, but I don't think it really
prevents anything of any great interest.
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