begin quoting DJA as of Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:30:03PM -0700: [snip] > The original objections to BK was it's viral license: anyone who looked
Only the FOSS gets to have viralness in their licenses? > at its source was owned for life by BK's owner. IOW, any programmer who > ever looked at or had some access to BK's code was considered tainted. > Apparently, it was not clear exactly what restrictions were imposed by > BK's license. That was reason enough for most FOSS developers to stay > away from it. Especially kernel developers. Probably not a bad reason. > Apparently Linux didn't have a problem with it, at least in the way he > used it, but it seems he was the odd man out. It helps to know the owner of the company... -Stewart "This is a viral internym." Stremler
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