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...your article on the MyDoom Virus (News, “MyDoom Virus Infects Harvard,” Feb. 4) You called open source software ‘uncopyrighted?? software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code...
McBride has emerged as public enemy number one in the eyes of advocates for open-source—or uncopyrighted??software since SCO claimed last year to own code in the open-source operating system Linux, which has gained considerable popularity in the computing world as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows...
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