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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU is not Public Domain (was Re: Yacc and Awk)
Keywords: copyright copyleft gnu FSF public-domain
Message-ID: <3706@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 04:20:28 GMT
References: <JANR.89Feb9101033@tum.sics.se> <3692@nicmad.UUCP> <6711@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <6711@thorin.cs.unc.edu> davis@cs.unc.edu (Mark Davis) writes:
<In article <3692@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>GNU Awk has just been released to the pc binaries news group.  It is public
<>domain.
<I hate to nit, but Stallman is trying hard to protect the status of
<FSF's stuff.
<
<Gnu things (like GAWK and GCC) are freely copiable but are not public
<domain.  FSF has copyright and has some interesting restrictions about
<what you can do with it.  For most of us, it makes it freely available,
<but the rules keep somebody from going into business and making money
<off of all of the volunteer work that has been done for FSF.

Oops.  Sorry, bad choice of words.  I should have known better and not
said public domain.
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