Re: linux

From: Oliver Kuhn <oliver_at_sun.subito.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 09:23:54 GMT
Message-ID: <oliver.782645034_at_sun>


Michael Stowe <Michael.Stowe_at_f573.fido.chi.il.us> writes:

>My understanding is that Oracle can't release a product on Linux, due to the
>Linux copyright structure. (In other words, they could release it, but they
>couldn't charge for it, which would kind of defeat the purpose.)

I'm afraid this is not true. There are already some commercial products available, e. g. a Motif programming environment. Linux and most of the available tools are distributed under the GPL, but if you want to sell software for Linux without aplying GPL you may do so.

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