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From: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Sale of Redristributable Software
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Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 18:25:10 EST
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Summary: 

I'm not sure that a copyright needs to be protecting financial interests.
Couldn't it simply be that an author wants to have a say in what people do
with his/her work?  The GNU system is protected by a copyright stipulation
which explicitly states that you are *NOT* allowed to make money selling GNU or
a derivative work.  Yuo may only charge distribution costs, and may not
interfere in *any* way with what people do with it later.  (This includes 
forbidding liscencing agreements, copy protection, and (I *love* this) keeping
the source code private.)

I'm sure Richard Stallman looked into the pertinent legalities, and didn't find
any problems.  (Or he'd do something else (maybe charging a penny for it).)

Would anyone with more background in the subject like to comment on this?

         -Colin Plumb (ccplumb@watnot.UUCP)

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