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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: Because you think I misrepresent RMS, it's OK to misrepresent me?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 14:19:23 GMT
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[I don't get gnu.* here...]

In article <3084@cello.UUCP> sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders) writes:
>The only right they loose is they cannot sell gnu code for their own
>profit.
>For anything other than the "GNU library" and "bison" issue:
>    I fail to see how someone could unwittingly do this unless they
>    havn't a clue.  Would you just snarf up code from ANY source with a
>    copyright without at LEAST reading the copyright yourself.  You
>    don't need a lawyer to figure it out.

Well, for example, take a recent posting to alt.sources: GNU getopt
ported to MS-DOS.

It was posted without a copy of the GNU Public Virus.

Despite that, it is still covered by it. That means that anyone who uses
that package is, because of section 2b of the GPV, automatically forced
to give _his source code_, not just the GNU getopt package, away, and
prevented from restricting redistribution of that code. All without his
knowledge.

I agree that the person who posted GNU getopt without a copy of the GPV
screwed up; still, that doesn't mean that those who use the code should
be penalized.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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