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Re: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - OpenSource?



On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 06:46:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Only the lawyers at IBM could take a two paragraph BSDish license and
> > make 9 pages out of it.
> 
> Much closer to GPL than BSD, IMHO.  You can distribute binaries under your
> license, but you must make source available under the IBM license.

You just described the BSD license...  =p

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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>            Debian GNU/Linux developer
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<toor> netgod: what do you have in your kernel??? The compiled source for
       driving a space shuttle???

<Spoo> time to make a zip drive your floppy drive then. if the kernel
       doesn fit on that, the kernel is an AI

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