Re: wine-license digest, Vol 1 #178 - 6 msgs

Matt Seitz <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:32:52 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
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"Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> What "BSD licensing problem that spawned Linux" are you talking about?

Probably that the license for BSD UNIX was hotly contested and involved in
various lawsuits for a time.  I have seen this theory before, that Mr. Torvalds
created Linux because the license for BSD UNIX was in dispute.  However, that
theory seems to conflict with an article Mr. Torvalds wrote about this very
subject:  see 

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=32cs6g%24l9t%40klaava.Helsinki.FI

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Sincerely,
Matt Seitz

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