On 14 Jul 1998, david parsons wrote:
> In article <linux.kernel.19980712143639.24150@yosh.gimp.org>,
> Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org> wrote:
>
> >This is why I have advised the KDE people that if they wish to distribute
> >their KDEified GIMP, they should get permission from every tenant of the
> >GIMP copyright (which includes the FSF, there is FSF copyrighted code in
> >GIMP). If one tenant disagrees, no go.
>
> This would be a horrible precedent that would chill commercial
> software development for Linux. For example, I developed a variant
> Linux kernel for use with McAfee Associate's _WebShield_ product.
> This happened about the same time as the bliss virus came out and the
> black helicopter fringe was shrieking about McAfee being the
> antichrist of the week for having the temerity to claim that virii
> are possible on Unix. Get permission from all of the people who'd
> contributed code to the Linux kernel before taking that kernel and
> modifying it for McAfee? Yeah, right, and then I'd discover that a
> Trend Micro employee contributed something to the kernel and, `no,
> we'd rather not let a competitor get any advantage from this free
> system.'
>
> If you GPLed your code, you have to live with it being GPLed. This
> includes it being used and modified by your competitors.
>
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ Sorry.
> \/
>
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