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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 05:06:07 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator 
Message-ID:  <34c82454.17691507@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801230340.UAA22987@harmony.village.org>
References:  <199801230204.SAA17663@kithrup.com>  Your message of "Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:28:08 -0700". <199801222028.NAA19088@harmony.village.org>  <199801230340.UAA22987@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:40:48 -0700, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
wrote:

>The press release said GPL.

This is an interesting case of BSD vs. GPL.

If Netscape used a BSD type license, Microsoft could take it and add
improvements and hide the improvements.  With GPL, they can still take
it, but can't hide the improvements.  At least not without getting
sued by Netscape.

So GPL is better for Netscape.


John






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