[haiku-development] Re: Haiku License

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:07:32 -0700

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

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