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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP
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Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES (on program sources, of course)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 02:26:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 02:26:48 1987
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In article <357@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  I gave a copy of the "COPYING"
> file to our lawyer, who studied it in some detail and then pronounced
> that if we included it, it would require us to give away the source
> to ALL of Uniplus+.  I thought he was slightly daffy, but his opinion
> (which carried more weight than mine :-) effectively killed the idea.
> So Doug, you have the support of at least one lawyer's opinion on this
> subject...

Amazing, especially since Berkeley distributed GNU Emacs with 4.3 BSD.

I have to agree: Section 2b of the GNU Public License seem to imply that
the terms of the License must spread to cover other software that GNU is
distributed with.

I suppose only time and litigation will bear this out.

kyle jones   <kyle@odu.edu>   old dominion university, norfolk, va