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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: gnu copyrights
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 03:11:50 EDT
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I have been writing a public domain 'tar' to contribute to the GNU
project.  Before I got too far along, I made sure that Richard would
agree to redistribute it as real live Public Domain code, without his
funny restrictions.  If you are writing code and truly wish it to be
public domain (anyone can do ANYTHING with it, no restrictions, no
copyrights, no caveats, if they make a million with it, you have no
recourse), then make sure to get this kind of agreement from the GNU
project.  It appears that RMS would rather snarf up your copyright
(with your permission) and restrict the ways your code can be used.
This is fine if that's what you, the author, want -- but let him know
if not.


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John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa