"As for the GPL, it's total war."

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Walter Dnes wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:32:00PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote
> >
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> > >   Yes, I realize that SCO's viral-licence claims are a gross parody
> > > of GPL, but I think that's their game.
> >
> > Time to add a clause like that of the OSF/OG license's to the GPL, to
> > explicitly prohibit the use of the source on non-open systems (and ask
> > all Linux software publishers past and present to add this clause to
> > their release clause) (I am aware that the GPL contains a similar line):
>
>   Unfortunately, this would blow up Cygwin, which keeps me sane in an XP
> environment at work.  It's federal government, scientific support type
> work rather than the usual beauraucracy.  Since I crunch large text
> files, I need posix utilities like grep, sed, etc.  I could either...

No, cygwin would buy a redistributor license for $1 with all the paperwork
aok and the matter would be legally settled. Companies do this all the
time inside (what do you think happens to existing products after a merger
?).

Peter
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