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- From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <6083@comton.airs.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 05:10:17 GMT
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- ciaran@ulysse.enst.fr (Ciaran O'Donnell) writes:
-
- >However, the Gnu Public License (GPL) and the notion of "copyleft" is in
- >itself a perversion of the legal system. Take a good look at the GPL and
- >then compare it to any other licence (Microsoft, ATT). The "software hoarders"
- >license are much less constraining and paranoid than the GPL. Nor is this
- >the result of FSF "ideological diarrhea." The FSF licenses are written by
- >lawyers, good lawyers at that.
-
- I think you're letting your argument run away with you. My license
- for Microsoft Word doesn't even let me copy the program more than
- once. There is not one thing it permits that the GPL does not also
- permit.
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