Re: Linux isn't an operating system
Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:57:43 -0800
Ulrich Windl writes:
> On 6 Mar 96 at 23:41, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>
> > Ulrich Windl writes:
> > > Without Richard Stallman we probably wouldn't have the GPL; therefore
> > > I'll also consider X11 as GNU software.
> >
> > X11 is not distributed under the GPL.
>
> It's free, and you may get the source to fix the bugs for yourself;
> the idea counts. Compare this to commercial software!
The difference is that commercial developers may make proprietary
extensions to X without making source for those extensions available to
the X community. The GPL, on the other hand, requires that source code
for modified versions of the GPLed software must be distributed.