Re: value of open-source in the driver community (was "how to execute a process...")

It certainly mught be arguable. My unserstanding may be completely
incorrect.

BUT, I can’t afford to pay Walter (my Favorite lawyer) to be absolutely
certain of that.

Thomas

“Steve Dispensa” wrote in message
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> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:55, Thomas F. Divine wrote:
> > Absolutely. Do it. I peek through BSD sources (which, indirectly are
paid
> > for by my taxes) to get wonderful ideas that I might not have thought of
> > myself.
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> > If it’s under GPL, I can’t look at it because in doing so I would commit
my
> > company (and my customers) to adopt the same license.
>
> This is very arguable. Reference Mark Roddy’s informative copyright
> e-mails from a couple weeks ago. Patents are a much thornier issue,
> though.
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