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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: gnu copyrights
Message-ID: <14097@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 15:58:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.14097
Posted: Fri May 23 15:58:51 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 18:35:12 EDT
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Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Dept.
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In article <811@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:

>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)...

Isn't this kind of silly?  If you are going to throw your code into the
Public Domain, then there isn't anyway you can stop RMS from distributing
it with his copyright notice on it, right?  Since you've pointedly made no
attempt to protect your code, he can just grab it and do what he wants to
it - including slapping a GNU redistribution agreement on it.

Self-defeating.

                                                -- Scott Turner
                                                The Chairman of the Board