Novell and SuSE

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On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 15:52, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Derek Neighbors wrote:
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> > I hope you can understand why developers of Free Software find this
> > irrating. They want to be able to take our hard work and bundle it wit=
h
> > their work and distribute it for money. However, they do not want us t=
o
> > be able to bundle their work with our work and distribute it for money?
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> That makes good sense to developers of GPL (and other licenses
> discouraging closed source derivatives) licensed code.
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> But to developers who use the BSD (or Apache or MIT or X11 or XFree86)
> license it doesn't matter much, because their licensing allows products t=
o
> be closed up and made proprietary (commonly for money). So they have the
> understanding that someone can take their good work.

Yes good point. I should have said GPL developers instead of
generically saying Free Software developers. Thank you for restating it
properly.

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Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
derek@gnue.org

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