Messages in this thread | | | From | (joost witteveen) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:04:14 +0100 (CET) |
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In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Joe Pranevich: > > > Okay, you seem to be misunderstanding the meaning of the word "free" as > > far as the Linux community is concerned. Maybe you should replace every > > occurance of the word "free" with the word "open" to reduce confusion. > > > > Open == GPL. End of story. > > Not at all. The Linux kernel is released with a modified, less > restrictive GPL (see the COPYING file)
That's rubbish! There are _no_ modifications in the linux/COPYRIGHT file. Yes, there is a notice from Linus that explains how to interpret somethings in the copyright, but I just checked, and linux/COPYRIGHT is identical to the GPL (appart from these initial 6 lines from Linus).
-- joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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