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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: GPL and gettime. This is ridiculous.
Message-ID: <13283@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 21:44:03 GMT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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The recent gettime posting unshars as follows:

-rw-r--r--  1 sean        12488 Nov 20 16:32 COPYING
-rw-r--r--  1 sean          465 Nov 20 16:32 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 sean          719 Nov 20 16:32 README
-rw-r--r--  1 sean         3593 Nov 20 16:32 gettime.c

Isn't this kind of ridiculous? We probably already have 50 copies of
the GPL on our system, and now people are posting programs where the
posting is 2/3 GPL and 1/3 source.

Everyone that contributes sources is appreciated!!! But cmon, you don't
have to include the GPL with everything. If you insist on publishing
software under GNUs terms, just say that it's redistributable under the
terms of the GPL.

[Begin political statement]

Better yet, make your source public domain, and allow everyone to advance
the state of the art in software.

[End political statement]

Sean
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