Re: Corel Linux

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Al> They might want to give stuff back so they don't violate the
> Al> GPL. ... oh, hang on, they have violated the GPL. I suppose
> Al> giving stuff back was nice after all.... ;)))
>
> Eh? Have you informed the FSF of this fact?

I think they know already! I'm referring to the beta release programme -
they seem to be doing a similar Caldera-type 'you recind your rights'
trick which technically isn't supposed to hold water with the GPL. Given
that it's not mainstream software (i.e., not the final release) they get
away with it....

Alex.

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