Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ICST-CMR.ARPA!rbj From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: "Public" funds a la Wegrzyn Message-ID: <8704022252.AA17962@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 17:52:30 EST Article-I.D.: icst-cmr.8704022252.AA17962 Posted: Thu Apr 2 17:52:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 16:47:59 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 ? Now, is the GNU copyright better than placing something in the ? public domain? Well that is arguable, but more importantly they are ? very different. Public domain means that the program can be sold, etc - ? no one owns it, while the GNU copyright restricts the use. So if anyone can do anything with it, one can slap the GNU copyright on it. That doesn't mean they *own* it, but the value is that people *think* thay do. In addition to the real value of the teeth in the copyright law, a good amount of its effectiveness comes from the morality of people who dislike breaking the law even when there is almost no chance that they will suffer for it. Please don't get me wrong, I dig the GNU Manifesto. ? Perhaps the President of Ann Arbor Terminals would make a ? statement for the record? I would call him but I have forgotten his ? telephone number. ? ? Chuck Wegrzyn, ? ? not an employee of Codex, just a user. (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell Were these parsnips CORRECTLY MARINATED in TACO SAUCE?