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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.102427.19095@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:24:26 GMT
- References: <C0Au59.C4n@mtholyoke.edu> <1993Jan3.171845.18963@husc3.harvard.edu> <1993Jan7.130229.8014@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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- In article <1993Jan7.130229.8014@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
- idall@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Ian Dall) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan3.171845.18963@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
-
- X:
- >>>"The use of GNU" does NOT place you under any legal obligation to
- >>>anyone or anything. Only the redistribution of GNU places you under
- >>>legal obligations to the copyright holder, the FSF.
-
- MZ:
- >>The use of GNU places me under a reciprocal obligation which limits
- >>its usufruit, regardless of whether or not I ever exercise my physical
- >>ability to do so. I know that it may be hard to figure out, but feel
- >>free to ask somebody in your philosophy department about the meaning
- >>of obligation.
-
- ID:
- >But it is not the use of the software which places you under the
- >obligation. You have a legal obligation to not include FSF software in
- >a proprietory product (paraphrased) but that obligation exists whether
- >or not you use the software. There is no *additional* legal obligation
- >incurred in you using the software so it is in that sense free.
-
- Doesn't it bother you that the same thing can be said about System V?
-
- ID:
- >You, and others, will never agree that the FSF definition of "free" is
- >a reasonable one, so why not agree to differ. This interminable debate
- >never gets anywhere.
-
- Do you mean that there is more than one truth of the matter?
-
- >--
- > Ian Dall life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts
- > some people more severely than others.
- > ACSnet: idall@augean.oz
- > Internet: idall@augean.oz.au
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-