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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:00:32 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.024116.2260@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>This still means that I cannot afford to have any GPV-protected code on my
>>computer, since I cannot risk having the source of some of my income tainted
>>by association with GPV code;
>'any' ?? i get the impression that you didn't read the GPL (carefully).

Au contraire. I've read the GPV most carefully, and my conclusions are
consistent with others' who haven't bought into the FSF utopia.

I've been told in email that there's a version 2 of the license, though; I
reserve the right to change my opinion if the new version has been
disinfected.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein