discuss: No Warranty License.

[John Cowan]

Nathan Kelley scripsit:

> Those in the proprietary software business aren't allowed to re-use 
> code from any software licensed under any OSD-compliant license in 
> their proprietary products without conforming to the conditions of the 
> license, making their product nonproprietary; 

This is by no means true.  Only a minority of Open Source licenses have
this so-called "viral" property, like the GPL.  Windows, e.g., comes with the
BSD-licensed TCP/IP command-line tools, but the Windows versions of them are
completely proprietary.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan at ccil.org
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are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_
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