Re: interesting
>
> George Bonser dixit:
> >
> > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33762,00.html
> >
> > Looks like Caldera is building a nice linux install wizard ... called
> > lizard. They say they might open-source it.
>
> They "might"? I thought everything developed under Linux has to be GPL'ed,
> and thus open source!
No that is not true. If someone derived a new kernel from the linux
kernel, the GPL would require it to be GPL-ed. But it is perfectly
legal to distribute closed-source binaries with linux. If you don't
like this, debian is the distribution for you!
HTH,
Eric
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