Re: [TUHS] Lexical comparator, was Re: the battle against SCO

Robert Brockway: Hi. Don't want to nitpick here but many of us think it is important to get this point straight whenever we are talking about GPLed code. The kernel is licenced (as I'm sure you know). What we are of course concerned about is: a) Code which is licenced in a manner incompatible with the GPL b) Code that the copyright holder did not authorise going into the kernel. I'm sure you were just speaking in shorthand but it is subtle point that many misinterpret. Many people outside the OSS community think that "all that free code" is in the public domain, which it is most definately not. ==== Quite right. I wasn't speaking in shorthand, I was speaking in clumsy; what I should have written is `possible that code restricted by the System V license got into the system.' Licenses come in all flavours, and whether there is any license at all is not the issue here. I certainly didn't mean, for example, to imply that all licenses are evil, reptilian kitten- eaters from another planet. Norman Wilson Toronto ON