Re: OT: Here's the article text -- Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 18:22:02 EST

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On 05.03 Miles Lane wrote:
> Sorry for sending a link to a (albeit, free) subcription
> service earlier. Here's the text of the article, in case
> you are interested in Microsoft's latest shinanigans.
>
>
> away in an effort to attract visitors to Web sites. G.P.L. requires
> that any software using source code already covered by the licensing
> agreement must become available for free distribution.
>

AFAIK, GPL only forces you to distribute the source of the GPLed parts
of your soft, not everything.

PLEASE, could any good writer post a commented-rationale of the GPL to
NYT ?

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