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Re: SCO identifies code?



* Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:43:21AM +0100, Mark wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:03PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > > 
> > > This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the FSF hired you to write a
> > > GPL program, they wouldn't want you to release a proprietary version of
> > > it after you quit working for them.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why would they care?  They would have their GPLed version, if you 
> > choose to write a closed version, that's your choice.  
> 
> If they didn't care about closed version they wouldn't use the GPL.

This is broken logic.

The FSF would have nothing to lose from a closed version of a GPL piece
of software being developed.

If GPL'd(GPLed? which is less stoopid?) _code_ was used, that'd be a
different issue though.

iain

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