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Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 15:20
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In article <3i927s$iv5@hermes.synopsys.com> jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck) writes:
>No kidding.  We all know that.  (Actually your statement isn't *quite*
>right but I'm not in a nitpicking mood, though the basic point that
>Berkeley copyright code may mix with GPLed code to produce a GPLed whole is
>of course correct).  My point is that Linus made a *request* that goes

No its not. I've dropped various bits of BSD/GPL mix because my advice was
that it isn't and the best the FSF could answer was things about the BSD 
license not being valid in some parts.

The BSD license explicitly requires credit in documentation and advertising
The GPL explicitly forbids this extra restriction, and I for one am not
going to risk being stomped by the Regents of UCB, nice people though they
may be.

Alan


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