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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU...
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Date: 22 Mar 89 21:21:26 GMT
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In article <27674@apple.Apple.COM> jk@Apple.COM (John Kullmann) writes:
>I couldn't figure out where to post this so pardon me for posting it here.
>
>I was going to port over gdb, but fuck it if the GNU-nixs won't
>put my changes back into the offical GNU source. We already have most of GNU

I think that this a bit much....  The purpose of the copyleft if clear
and Stallman is obviously being very careful to keep the source distributed
by GNU clean with respect to the copyleft.  This is sometimes inconvenient,
but is needed if you want to make sure that a company can't degrade the freedom
of the software.  If companies like Apple don't want to cooperate with the
copyleft they should not use the software.  If some company decides to "challenge"
the copyleft, my "legal defense fund" check to the GNU project is waiting to
be signed.  I am sure that many other users who have benefitted from the GNU
project will feel the same way.




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