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- From: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- In-Reply-To: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu's message of 07 Jan 93 12:30:22 EST
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- Sender: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Organization: ScotSoft Research
- References: <1993Jan5.022956.19008@husc3.harvard.edu> <726334555snx@crynwr.com>
- <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:03:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- You haven't read the GPL. The FSF legally owns all code licensed under
- the GPL, under *any* reasonable definition of intellectual property.
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- If the FSF owns all code licensed under the GPL, then why can't they
- legally prevent people from running GNU products on their Apple
- computers? FSF can't legally violate the terms of the GPL anymore than
- you or I can, which is why you see many messages from rms asking
- people not to help get GNU stuff up on Apple computers, but not one
- message from a FSF lawyer threatening a suit if anyone runs emacs on a
- mac.
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- If all I can legally do is ask you to please not use my software, and
- please no one show you how to use my software, that doesn't seem like
- a reasonable definition of ownership.
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- Really, the FSF is more of a caretaker than an owner of GPL covered
- software.
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