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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing
From:       o.r.c () p ! e ! l ! l ! p ! o ! r ! t ! l ! a ! n ! d ! o ! r ! u ! s (david parsons)
Date:       1998-07-15 0:20:36
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In article <linux.kernel.19980712143639.24150@yosh.gimp.org>,
Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org> wrote:

>This is why I have advised the KDE people that if they wish to distribute
>their KDEified GIMP, they should get permission from every tenant of the
>GIMP copyright (which includes the FSF, there is FSF copyrighted code in
>GIMP). If one tenant disagrees, no go.

   This would be a horrible precedent that would chill commercial
   software development for Linux.   For example, I developed a variant
   Linux kernel for use with McAfee Associate's _WebShield_ product.
   This happened about the same time as the bliss virus came out and the
   black helicopter fringe was shrieking about McAfee being the
   antichrist of the week for having the temerity to claim that virii
   are possible on Unix.    Get permission from all of the people who'd
   contributed code to the Linux kernel before taking that kernel and
   modifying it for McAfee?  Yeah, right, and then I'd discover that a
   Trend Micro employee contributed something to the kernel and, `no,
   we'd rather not let a competitor get any advantage from this free
   system.'

   If you GPLed your code, you have to live with it being GPLed.  This
   includes it being used and modified by your competitors.

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   david parsons \bi/ Sorry.
                  \/

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