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From: bernstei@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: Copyleft may be invalid in some states
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Date: 17 Oct 89 20:46:32 GMT
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In article <4993@orca.WV.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
> Utterly wrong.  The copyleft is not a license, it is the terms of a
> "publication" in the parlance of copyright law.

The GNU General Public License is, legally and obviously, a license.
Hence it must specify compensation.

Any pertinent comments?

---Dan Bernstein, brnstnd@acf10.nyu.edu, bernstei@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu