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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
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Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
Keywords: GNU Emacs free
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Date: 22 Feb 90 01:13:36 GMT
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In article <1656@speedy.mcnc.org> mjt@nagshead.ncsc.org (Mike Tighe) writes:
>In article <1990Feb19.213357.7340@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>First off, the sales rep told me that I could buy GNU Emacs and that
>Hmmm. I did not think the GNU Public License allowed allowed the sale of
>GNU Emacs. It is free software. Also, the source code must also be provided
>too. 

You are not allowed to SELL GNU Emacs, but you are allowed to charge a
reasonable fee to duplicate it.  IBM's fee to duplicate GNU Emacs for
you ($125) is, I believe, less than the fee that the FSF charges to do
the same thing, and this is perfectly fine according to the copyleft.

Opinions are my own....

Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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