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From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: gnu copyrights
Message-ID: <820@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 25-May-86 18:31:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 25 18:31:30 1986
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In article <14097@ucla-cs.ARPA>, srt@ucla-cs.ARPA (Scott Turner) writes:
> In article <811@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> >                                   ...I made sure that Richard would
> >agree to redistribute it as real live Public Domain code, without his
> >funny restrictions.
> 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?

This is true, but if I ask RMS if he will distribute it as PD and he
says yes, I presume that he will keep his word.  If I make no agreement
with him then I have shown no interest in what he does with my code.
In either case he COULD claim copyright and I have no legal recourse.
That doesn't mean I shouldn't ask for what I want.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa