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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.170541.19119@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:05:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan8.170541.19119
- References: <726334555snx@crynwr.com> <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu> <C0JrIH.BEK@ssr.com>
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- In article <C0JrIH.BEK@ssr.com>
- sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
-
- MZ:
- >>You haven't read the GPL. The FSF legally owns all code licensed under
- >>the GPL, under *any* reasonable definition of intellectual property.
-
- SB:
- >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.
-
- Sure they can, -- insofar as they explicitly reserve the right to
- revise the terms of the GPL, which is copyrighted in their corporate
- name, all they would have to do, is add yet another restrictive clause
- on the copying and modification of their software.
-
- SB:
- >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.
-
- See above.
-
- SB:
- >Really, the FSF is more of a caretaker than an owner of GPL covered
- >software.
-
- To quote Alfred Jarry, "Ha ha."
-
- >sdb
- >---
- >sdb@ssr.com
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
- en mon livre de vie. Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."
-