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From: csmith@mozart.uucp (Chris Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.)
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Date: 8 Aug 89 11:13:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 7 Aug 89 11:11:07 GMT

In article <5564@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

> (b) Nobody is going to be tricked into putting their code into the FSF
> version of the public domain by Nethack.

There's peril in everything, then.  You can't set up a business around
Annotated New York Times audio cassettes for harried commuters.
Normal copyrights don't force you to publish the annotations, but you
can't do anything useful with them without the NYT, either.

But you can build whatever you want out of FSF software with no danger
at all if you're willing to publish the sources of the result.

If somebody set up an Encyclopaedia Britannica server that would
distribute articles, freely usable under the restriction that
a copy of any article containing a quote be returned to the server
for redistribution, would that also be a trick?