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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:43:31 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
CC: Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing
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Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> Jason Dixon wrote:
>>> Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must
>>> remain.  You are free to derive work and redistribute under your
>>> license, but the original copyright and license permission remains
>>> intact.  Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD
>>> code and have no problem understanding this.  Why is this so difficult
>>> for the Linux brain share to absorb?
>> Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing?
> 
> Maybe because Reyk's code was never dual-licensed?

And yet a good portion of Theo's response, in particular his accusations 
of Alan Cox exhorting people to break the law, were directly related to 
dual licensing.

	Jeff