gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:29:21 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] RMS and GNU/sink (was: systrace is cool) 

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:20:08PM -0400, Jason wrote:
> Arguably, the contribution with the largest impact from RMS is the GPL. Not 
> much code in there, and a very large impact for such a short document. So, 
> it's not the amount of code, but the impact.

I'd say emacs is more important than the GPL. But that's obviously
a tinted opinion.

> You could also argue that the Linux kernel is GPL'd, whereas I believe that 
> NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD still use a BSD-style license, no?

Um, of course. What do you mean "still"? That suggests it'd ever
change, and it really probably won't...

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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