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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.051241.17361@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1ivb9nINN4f2@early-bird.think.com> <1993Jan12.212313.5205@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1j065fINNnsq@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:12:41 GMT
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- In article <1j065fINNnsq@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >>In other words, by distributing the program, you implicitly agree to distribute
- >>source code.
- >Right. That's not the same thing as agreeing to let someone take source
- >code. If I agree to give you $10, I have not implicitly agreed to let you
- >pick my pocket to take the $10.
-
- Of course you haven't implicitly agreed to it. However, I read that line in
- the GPL as implying that you have. My point is not that you really did
- implicitly agree, but rather that the GPL tries to say so.
- --
- "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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