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RE: juggling patches...
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:31:39 -0600
- Subject: RE: juggling patches...
[snip]
> I think most folks who use/develop/understand cygwin will be more
> accomodating to Larry's licensing terms than the l-k hackers are, given
> the dual licensing nature of cygwin itself. You don't see a lot of
> RMS-style license-vigelante-ism around here [it's GNU/Linux, dammit!
> GPL or die! GNU/Cygwin! GNU/AIX! GNU/refridgerator! GNU/basketball!
^^^^^^^^^^^
Holy frejolies, PAH-LEEZE tell me that you just made that one up! PLEASE tell
me nobody has actually floated that notion seriously!
[snip]
>
> BTW, [FUD warning; I am NOT sure of the following] isn't there a "no
> free use on proprietary operating systems" clause in the bitkeeper
> license? E.g. you can't run it (for free) under windows?
Don't you mean "GNU/Cygwin/Windows"? ;-)
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.