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  3. From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
  4. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
  5. Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
  6. Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:14:23 GMT
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  10. References: <1993Jan7.202709.19083@husc3.harvard.edu> <1iindhINNfu5@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan8.212814.21601@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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  14. In article <1993Jan8.212814.21601@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
  15. arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
  16. >
  17. > How are you going to prove you took the code from a common (non-GPL)
  18. > source, instead of copying from the GPL to the non-GPL program?
  19.  
  20. It doesn't matter.  If you own the original GPL'd source, you can put
  21. whatever license on it you wish.  The GPL itself does not transfer
  22. ownership, and it does not magically transcend copyright law.  It
  23. cannot do either.
  24.  
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  26.  \  /   Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
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