RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 01:35 PM 7/19/2002, Francois Gouget wrote:
>
> >Your analogy is flawed: it implies that no one can use the X11 code
> >anymore which is incorrect.
>
> Not true. When GPLed code is intertwined with MIT-licensed code, it
> quickly becomes impossible to separate them.

And could you please explain why they cannot start from the last release
licensed under the X11, BSD or MIT license? There is nothing anyone can
do to prevent you from doing so. It works very well for Rewind for
instance.


> (Especially since any programmer who looks at GPLed code is thereafter
> "tainted" and could be accused of writing a derivative work if he
> wrotes something similar.)

This just shows you are paranoid.


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