Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.) Message-ID: <5564@ficc.uu.net> Date: 7 Aug 89 11:11:07 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <1493@convex.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1493@convex.UUCP>, csmith@mozart.uucp (Chris Smith) writes: > So you can't sell nethack, or enhance it and sell it, or sell gcc or > any modification of it. Whether you feel this way about the > software you yourself give away or not, why the frenzy? Because (a) I don't feel that way about the software I've given away, and (b) Nobody is going to be tricked into putting their code into the FSF version of the public domain by Nethack. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"