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Re: linux = GPL?!



> 
> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Alexandre Khalil wrote:
> 
> >> >http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/whatis.html
> 
> >> >says it is... /usr/src/linux/README also states it is... since WHEN?? I
> >> >was always sure Linus was a little more protective...
> 
> >> Linus says that copylefting Linux is the most important design decision
> >> he ever made.
> 
> >but... but...
> >A. when did it happen?
> 
>   The idea has been there all along.  Probably checking the
> /usr/src/linux/README or Makefile files of older kernels will help
> ascertain when the first formal commitment was made. 

For all the interested: look at sunsite, in 
docs/misc/linux-history.gz
a great file to read for unimportant info and amuzement.

didi.
> 
> >B. I have a feeling he wants to get less and less involved lately...
> >preparing ground for "the next phase", whatever that will be.
> 
>   Some Linux afficionado found him a job in California working on
> computer matters completely unrelated to Linux.  Linus seems to want to
> keep his work on Linux on purely voluntary basis.
> 
> alex
> 



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