Subject: Re: vi update?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/20/2000 23:02:39
In message <200002210457.UAA03142@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
>That is total and complete nonsense.  For an example, note there is
>BSD-licenced code in the base Linux kernel distribution.

How do they do this, given the official view from the FSF that you can't do a
program under GPL with components that are under a "more-restrictive" license,
and the belief that the advertising clause is more restrictive?

>You can't really claim that BSD has too much ego when Linus (a.k.a.
>"Mr. Humble") is getting his mug on every glossy computer rag in town :-)

Yeah, but it's not clear that this is entirely his idea.

-s