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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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