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From: jeff@samna.UUCP (jeff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh?
Message-ID: <212@samna.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 16:40:05 GMT
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Organization: Samna Corporation, Atlanta
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In article <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>I don't think that small items such as might fit into a single Usenet
>article should use the GPL.  It's like pretending /bin/true is proprietary,
>which nobody in their right mind would do.

>Larry "$GPL != $FSF" Wall


Thought this was kinda amusing:  "cat /bin/true" on my AT&T 3B2
produces all kinds of warnings to the effect that "This is unpublished
*proprietary* source code," etc. (I won't post the specifics for fear of
the dread AT&T copyright lawyers :-).  However, there is not a single 
executable statement in the file.

Jeff