From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:07:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: <20170106020904.GK2588@mcvoy.com> References: <586d297d.1Xe1F+MbZU5jlMCH%schily@schily.net> <20170104170635.GB3405@mcvoy.com> <586d2cb8.bX/Qr+lraMBvukp9%schily@schily.net> <20170104171550.GD3405@mcvoy.com> <586d3377.O9F94JXabKYeeaLf%schily@schily.net> <20170104174217.GG3405@mcvoy.com> <586d3556.RxSZPogSIiAqCHBk%schily@schily.net> <586d3fae.uf5FiS568GsBeCKB%schily@schily.net> <586e2b95.qSZFAOk0Wy6HVTlq%schily@schily.net> <20170106020904.GK2588@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: > That makes sense to me, the GPL was hated inside of Sun, it was > considered a virus. The idea that you used a tiny bit of GPLed code and > then everything else is GPLed was viewed as highway robbery. "GPL: Free like VD" Personally, I'm fine with LGPL 2.1, but I rather quickly soured on the GPL proper, and what little code I've done recently has been under a modified BSD licence (UIUC licence). -uso.