RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 10:15 AM 7/19/2002, Roland wrote:
>
> >It applies in practice. You still can get all the X11 licensed code
> >you want. But, WineX has additional code. This code is licensed under
> >a more restrictive license. The same happened to WINE now. You will
> >always be able to retrieve the X11 licensed code as such, and that is
> >what the ReWind fork did. You can also start your own X11 fork
> >anytime. But a lot of additional code is LGPL by now.
>
> That's right. Stallman and Company have poisoned the well. That's one of the
> things that's so nasty about the GPL.

Your analogy is flawed: it implies that no one can use the X11 code
anymore which is incorrect.


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