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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- In-Reply-To: ian@airs.com's message of 6 Jan 93 06: 17:01 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:48:59 GMT
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- Ian Lance Taylor writes [in response to MZ]:
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-
- ...All freedom exists under a certain set of
- more or less onerous restrictions. Your argument against the GPL
- seems to me to be that the GPL is sufficiently onerous that it does
- not deserve to be called free.
-
- compare and contrast with the restrictions on the following [eg]: BSD source,
- the X window system and related software, tex, kermit, c-news, icon, CMU lisp,
- byacc ...
-
- qed.
-