Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: gettime.c - gets another system's time
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.173951.18935@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
References: <1929@psuhcx.psu.edu> <834@gistdev.gist.com>
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 89 17:39:51 GMT

In article <834@gistdev.gist.com> jeff@gistdev.gist.com (Jeff Johnson) writes:
>wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> FLAME ON !
> This is ridiculous!  Including a 12.5K license agreement for a ~4K
> source program and Makefile.
Certainly true.

Is there anywhere in the world where the GNU licence actually means
anything, or is in *any* way binding?
I do not recall paying money, entering into a *written* contract, or
signing anything, when I recieved the GNU software.  It came down a
wire, and is not stored on a medium copyrightable under British law.
The place of origin (USA) is not a member of the international copyright
convention, so there would not appear to be a binding copyright
agreement either.

And since the headers broke several of the programs I received (by trying
to nest C comments, or by forgetting to open or close them altogether),
I simply deleted them all, and retained a single copy on disk.
Saved fifteen terabytes.

Comments?

Lee
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