Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: copyright on books Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 22:01:33 GMT References: <1168@umb.umb.edu> <387@necssd.NEC.COM> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 21 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >It seems that this discussion became inadvertently, but innocently, >segmented between two newsgroups. The segmentation seems to have >happened at a critical moment: between the acrimonious accusations >and the authoritative explanations. The FSF people in question have >described the situation in gnu.misc.discuss. Since comp.sources.d >missed the explanations, it's easy to see how misunderstandings could >arise. Please go check the recent traffic in gnu.misc.discuss if >you're curious about what happened (hint: It seems to have been a >classic case of miscommunication between widely-separated co-workers >on the project.) How about summarizing the relevant postings for those of us who don't get gnu.*? I'd like to see something authoritative that shows the FSF as actually being reasonable about something... -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +---------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_