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From: lum@osupyr.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX - From the mouth of the horse
Message-ID: <171@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 22:23:41 EST
Article-I.D.: osupyr.171
Posted: Wed Jan 21 22:23:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 20:52:07 EST
References: <1026@botter.cs.vu.nl> <4564@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <599@aurora.UUCP>
Reply-To: lum@osupyr.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
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Keywords: MINIX FSF GNU freedom Unix

In article <599@aurora.UUCP> jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:
>just wondering why purveyors of "totally free" unix-like software
>seem overly concerned with the law, as the gnu project appears to be.
>re-control through new age license agreements is not really much
>different from the mentality of an armada of at&t attorneys.
>
>i doubt it'd be worth it to gnu to really enforce re-distribution provisos,
>especially if, as has been said in this forum, they can't even get enough
>volunteers to completely re-invent the unix wheel.

No, probably not.  However, they have provided the public legal standing
to take action against anyone who attempts to defraud them by selling GNU.
They have provided protection not for _themselves_, but for _you_.

I have no association with the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, nor
even with RMS, other than as a happy user of ITS/Twenex Emacs (for pdp-10).

Lum Johnson  lum@ohio-state.arpa  ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum