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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Copyrights, again (Was: Re: v22i001:  RFC 931 TCP Authentication server, Part01/02)
Message-ID: <1696@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 90 15:44:46 GMT
References: <2467@litchi.bbn.com> <15122@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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 In article <15122@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
 >
 >Geez is it necessary to have a compiled in 2K static table in every
 >C file describing the terms of distribution????
 >
 >First we get the GNU people tacking a 3K copyright notice on a 400 byte
 >program, and now we not only get the same thing on each C file, but
 >it takes up memory/swap-space to boot!
 >
 >How about a notice in each file saying "For conditions of redistribution,
 >see the COPYING file." 
 >
 >This is getting ridiculous.

Sean, you forgot something.  "If you don't like it, don't use it."

Or, do you *really* think that you have the right to determine what
another person can stick into their code by way of a copyright notice?
You don't: it's their code.  You are on the other end of the food chain,
Sean, as a consumer and not as a producer.



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