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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:05:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- wollman@aix2.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
- >>Huh? in what sense is the PD source not readily available?
- >
- >1. I create a PD program and pass it around to a few people (set A).
- >2. One of these people (B) creates a binary from my source and gives
- > it to another group of people (set C).
- >
- >A is the set of people who have access to the source. C is the set of
- >people who have access to the binary. B = A\cap B = the set of people
- >who have the binary and the source. The people in C - B don't have
- >access to the source, unless B chooses to give it to them.
-
- The people in C-B can get the source from the people in set A.
-
- --Tim Smith
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