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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:28:14 GMT
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- In article <1iindhINNfu5@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
- >The rest of your argument falls apart because you seem to be under
- >the impression that I slap the GPL onto my work, I have taken rights
- >away from myself. I have not. As the owner of the work, I can make
- >another copy with a different copyright agreement attached.
-
- As I pointed out in another article, you can't.
-
- If you try making another copy with a different copyright agreement attached,
- or even another _almost_ copy, or even another program which is mostly, but
- not totally, different, all any would-be pirate has to do is say "whoops, you
- used some lines of code from a GPL program in that, so the whole thing is
- under the GPL". How are you going to prove you took the code from a common
- (non-GPL) source, instead of copying from the GPL to the non-GPL program?
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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