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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 15:12:07 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan8.170541.19119@husc3.harvard.edu> <MIB.93Jan8191428@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan9.025025.19137@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan9.025025.19137@husc3.harvard.edu>
- zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
- >
- > Regarding the touchy issue of magic changes of existing documents, I
- > advise you to ask Stallman about the contents of the original,
- > pre-FSF text of "The GNU Manifesto". Better yet, go to the library
- > and look it up.
-
- The "GNU Manifesto" is not a legal document. The GPL is a published
- legal document, of which there are probably at least several million
- copies. Given that it is included in almost every FSF distribution,
- and that people regularly `diff' different versions of a program, any
- change is likely to be noticed by many people.
-
- If you're sufficiently paranoid, it surely must have occured to you
- that you could ask the FSF to send you a notarized copy of the GPL, to
- compare against later copies.
-
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