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From: schwartz@psuvax1.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: cpp.c desperately needed
Message-ID: <3370@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 05:53:43 GMT
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Summary: free and free are homonyms

In article <1348@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:

>> 	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> about $150 (your prices may vary.)

>Huh?

The fee is for labor involved in making the tape, etc.  The software
is Free in the sense that it is not enslaved by unfriendly licencing
reqirements.   Once you get the programs from the FSF you can give
them away to your friends, subject to the emancipating provisions of
the GNU General Public Licence.