begin  quoting DJA as of Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:30:03PM -0700:
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> 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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