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From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sources.d,comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: copyright status [Re: The Jargon File -- an apologia]
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Date: 26 Mar 91 14:55:27 GMT
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In <21072488@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Tom Neff wrote:
> One thing's for sure:
> 
> The jargon file that can be copyrighted is not the True Jargon File.

Would you believe that several email messages have actually urged me to do
this?  I've been fairly neutral on the question, myself; apparently there's
some feeling out there that copyright is needed to protect the File from
potential future abuses by the unscrupulous.
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)