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From: kevin%kalli@Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: If the user does the link
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Date: 8 Jun 89 02:09:55 GMT
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In article <GRUNWALD.89Jun7135053@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Perhaps the libraries should be licensed products, with a specific
>re-distribution clause that precludes these sorts of activities.
>Does your control increase when you license software, rather than
>copyright it?
>
>The hard part is making it easy enough to get the license if you're
>``a good guy'' but still having enough teeth to bite ``a bad guy''.

Yep - that's what Sun did with NFS and RPC.  NFS was licensed bigtime, RPC
is "freely licensed", which isn't the same as PD.

Kevin Sheehan
Sun Microsystems

PS I second a vote for gnu.politics...  I *love* g*, but this is getting
a bit thick.