Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: general class definitions
Message-ID: <1988Jul25.194637.22208@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8807200438.AA24048@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <6590058@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 19:46:37 GMT

In article <6590058@hplsla.HP.COM> glenne@hplsla.HP.COM (           Glenn Engel) writes:
>  ... This will require you to offer for copying
>  costs, all your source code.  I would like to see this restriction
>  removed from libg++ so that it indeed will grow and grOW and GROW to
>  be usable by everyone.

Don't bet on it.  This is an ideological issue for RMS (and others); he
wants ALL source to be available for copying costs.  In fact he considers
any other policy not merely misguided but evil.  I'd be very surprised to
see any compromises made on this.  Buying into this ideology is the price
you pay for using the software.  (Betcha thought the stuff was free!)
-- 
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