On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:30:46 -0400 (EDT), "Eric S. Raymond" <esr_at_snark.thyrsus.com> said:
> Under your GPL, this is technically true.
> However, hacker-community custom forbids copying someone else's live
> project and haring off with it in a different direction.
. . .
> This right, in the case of old and well-established projects, can be
> very strong. It's pretty hard to imagine anybody forking most of the
> GNU utilities, for example, even though GPL technically permits this.
> The community would blow them off; it would not accept the results.
Lucid Emacs
Apache HTTPD
Linux Libc
WU FTPD
various gcc and gdb mutants
No opinions attached, these just come to mind . . . .
Received on Mon Jun 02 1997 - 13:28:37 EDT
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