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From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Query: Status of Mach cleanout?
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Date: 23 Aug 89 17:31:09 GMT
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In article <1311000001@upba>, damon@upba writes:
>I hope they finish soon also.  A freely distributable kernel is a much
>desired thing.  However, I am wondering about what restrictions FSF will
>place on it.  I can just see the ideologues puting a copyleft on it
>requiring any program run on the OS to be freely distributable.

Of course, they will copyright their changes.  But everyone will
still be able to take the original instead.

I don't want another GNU flame war, but I must point out that
the restrictions imposed by the GNU copyright are for many
purposes less severe than those imposed by companies who take
CMU code and make commercial products out of it.