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From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Copylefting
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Date: 27 Jul 89 17:16:48 GMT
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lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) wrote: 
>->Yes.  And software developed with public monies ought to be practically
>->available to profit-making companies as well as to others.  I wish
>->Stallman all the best in his crusade, but since I have my hand in the
>->public till, I don't think it would be proper for me to use a copyleft.

Ok, so you use public domain or else a copyright that gives away
most of the rights.  

But some people seem to think it's wrong for FSF to take that software
and copyleft their improvements.  Why is it ok for a profit-making
company to keep their improvements to public domain software completely
secret and not ok for FSF to put on their kind of restriction?