Re: quality of GNU stuff vs. Sun OS stuff

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From: N.Davis
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:26

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In article <1992Dec7.234628.2941@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham) writes:
>joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy) writes:
>
>> [ Included stuff deleted. ]
>
>>I'll third it.  At a previous company, I came up with an interesting idea
>>for a product, which would have required shipping GNU stuff.  The managers
>>said something like this: we asked the lawyers this before, and they said
>>no, so we are not going to ask them again.  
>
>It is expensive to ask lawyers anything.
>
>-PaulR.

 I raised this question with the Cygnus guys at the Sun User show
in San Jose, and they assured me that if I build a product using
GNU stuff, then I have to ship the src. *BUT* I do not have to ship
the src to my application. This has been checked out by various
legal eagles including those of a certain large (though getting smaller :-)
computer company.

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From: N.Davis@lut.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: quality of GNU stuff vs. Sun OS stuff
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Date: 17 Dec 92 16:26:38 GMT
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