From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 23 Sep 1999 - 11:05:47 IST
On 23-Sep-99 John P . Looney wrote:
> Is it just me, or are there parallels between Corels "Closed" beta test
>program, and XFree86's closed source-until-release program ?
>
>Kate
No because xfree actually writes the software that they release themselves,
so they can do what they want with them as much as they like. Corel didnt
write the stuff that they had the legalese about not showing anyone else
attached to.
If it was freeware or bsd corel would have been home dry, the gpl tag is
the kicker than nails them down.
C.
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