Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1367 gnu.misc.discuss:738 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!santra!sja From: sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Disinfecting the GNU Public Virus...er...License Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 12:24:17 GMT References: <4&VSZ:@splut.conmicro.com> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 16 Jan 90 21:41:41 GMT > I suggest that you come up with an example of someone who unintentionally > "infected" his code. I started writing a FORTRAN (blecch) front-end for gcc before I read the license. I thought I could make my own work public domain. I didn't get to the stage of actually giving the compiler to anyone, though; it wasn't anywhere near ready, it only compiled some simple benchmarks. I rm'd the thing when I found out that someone else was going to dictate what I could do with my work. That (and a verbal attack in gnu.gcc against a programmer who wanted to give his gcc Macintosh port to 'F'SF) rather radically changed my views of GNU. Does that count? Remember Mozart. ++sja