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From: dsill@RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: Advertising on comp.emacs
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Date: 14 Dec 88 21:00:36 GMT
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John Robinson writes:
>[The "free" in free software means "unrestricted"]

Well, John, I'm afraid that's another problem with the term "free" as
applied to GNU software.  The GNU Emacs General Public License *does*
place certain restrictions on what can be done with the code.  I'd
include a direct quote from the License, but I'd be violating its
copyright notice, so instead, I'll paraphrase.  The purpose of the
License is to place restrictions on GNU Emacs that guarantee everyone
will have right to share it.

So, it ain't necessarily free of charge, and it ain't free of
restrictions, but it's available free of charge and it's
redistributable. 

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The opinions expressed above are mine.