Re: [OFFTOPIC] GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:43:35 -0800 (PST)


Joe Pranevich:

> Okay, you seem to be misunderstanding the meaning of the word "free" as
> far as the Linux community is concerned. Maybe you should replace every
> occurance of the word "free" with the word "open" to reduce confusion.
>
> Open == GPL. End of story.

Not at all. The Linux kernel is released with a modified, less
restrictive GPL (see the COPYING file) except that parts of it
(include/linux/quota.h, include/net/slhc_vj.h, drivers/net/slhc.c,
drivers/net/bsd_comp.c) are under the BSD license, which has fewer
restrictions still. There are other kinds of free software too--check on
http://wei.larc.nasa.gov/doc/copyright/ for some examples.
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Trevor Johnson

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