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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
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Date: 28 Jul 89 20:35:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: ned@pebbles.cad.mcc.com's message of 27 Jul 89 22:09:43 GMT

In article <1960@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> ned@pebbles.cad.mcc.com (CME Ned Nowotny) writes:

   2)  Calling a binding copyright a "copyleft" is little more that newspeak
       and once again calls into question the FSF use of other common English
       words (e.g. "free").

Not really.  A copyright typically says "you can't do anything but
this...".  The copyleft says "you can do anything but this...".  As my
thesis advisor said many years ago, if you coin a term, you get to
define what it means.  And the FSF usage of "free software" is no
stranger than the western hemisphere's use of "the free world."
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