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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?



Today, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo blurbed:


> OZ>> http://cachedot.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/27/076204.shtml
> 
> If they don't provide source - surely. That was the whole point of GPL -
> for good or for bad - not to allow such a situation. 

ahh, but you are all on the wrong page. Linux is released under the
LGPL, not GPL.

> 
> In fact, I do not understand why they won't make source available. They
> are university project, not some money-thirsty commercial venture, what
> can be the problem with source?

and who do you think funds this veture?

***coughIDFcoughArmyIntelligenceCOUGH***

sometimes, the most natural candidates for source openings have a
skeleton in the closet, like Netscape having to kick out half the code
before opening it up... c'est la vie.