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From: Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com
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Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:57:28 EDT
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kyle@xanth.UUCP writes:
   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.

That's very interesting; I hadn't noticed that implication of section
2b before.  But I just re-read it, and I can see how one might get the
impression that everything with which GNU software is distributed
must also be covered by the GNU license.

It would seem that a trivial fix to the problem for individual
companies wanting to include GNU Emacs as "contributed software" would
be to deliver it separately in some way, that is, not fundamentally
bundled in with the rest of the software for which they wish to retain
their proprietary rights.

Perhaps that is why Berkeley included it on the "user-contributed
software" tape, separate from the essentials of 4.3BSD.

Karl