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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re:
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:14:06 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208192314.11@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug19.011831.3079@nrao.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.011831.3079@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
- >In article 32@rmkhome.UUCP, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >>Software houses such as Lotus and Wordperfect want complete assurance that
- >>their product is secure under the law when it goes out the door. There is
- >>no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software
- >>product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC,
- >>and should fall under the GNU Copyleft.
- >
- >Compiling a program with GNU C does not automatically place it under the
- >GNU General Public License. It might help cut down on the bandwidth here
- >if people actually read the GPL before posting.
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- I'm not saying that it does. I'm just saying that the GPL Copyleft is an
- untested licensing concept.
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- Apparently there are four versions of the GPL in circulation.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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