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Ximian Acquired By Novell

Submitted by logic on Mon, 2003-08-04 11:53. Novell

Ximian has announced their acquisition by Novell. More details are available in the joint press release.

Re: you obviously dont get the first thing about the GPL

Submitted by AnonymousA on Wed, 2003-08-06 03:16.

Okay let me add that I finally got around to reading the licensing page that Erick brought up and so my first point its partially wrong. Its LGPL/MIT (Were it not for the MIT part I would be afraid that it would be worthless to any company and Ximian might have gone bankrupt)

Well either way, I should note that by your strange argument about "stealing" code,

> by porting (read: stealing) FreeBSD's stack.

Linux would then be "stealing" code from FreeBSD because it GPLed quite a bit of *BSD code that was once more-or-less public domain. Its the same "black hole" as close source from the perspective of a BSD user, pretty much because BSD can't use any Linux code. Why? Copyleft!

For all the *BSD coders care, GPL might as well be closed source, because they are forbidden to use it.

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