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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by dublinben on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:19AM (#15219136)
You'd be wrong. The Free Software movement predates the "Open Source" movement by 15 years or so.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by eropple on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:53AM (#15219439)
The BSD license predates the GPLv1.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by throwaway2048 on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:29PM (#15220313)
GNU as an organization pushing the idea of free software long predates the GPL. The people creating the BSD licensed BSD NET/2 explicitly aknowledged the GNU influence on their decision to release.
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