On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wow so someone can take haiku, make it there own, give appropriate credits > and create a new OS and market it. That is mighty nice of the Haiku > Foundation to allow this. Technically, someone can do that very same thing with Linux (and does!) - they just have to release the code due to the GPL stipulations :) To be clear, the right to use copyrighted code is not "making it their own" legally - I know what you mean, however :) - Urias