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- From: mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Message-ID: <MIKE.92Sep15122219@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:22:19 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu's message of Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:52:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >Why _does_ the FSF allow its software to be ported to Apple machines, even if
- >it refuses to do so itself? Why doesn't the GPL contain a statement that
- >licenses you to use the program only if you not only make source available
- >with binaries, but also agree not to port the program to an Apple machine?
-
- I should think it would be self-evident. To include such restrictions
- in its licenses would be for FSF to indulge in exactly the kind of software
- licensing that it was founded to oppose.
-
- For the FSF to simply refuse to port its software to Apples is perfectly
- reasonable and in no way against the FSF's charter.
-
- There's a big difference between:
- "We refuse to support Apples, and we encourage you not to either."
- and:
- "We refuse to support Apples, and furthermore we absolutely
- forbid you to run our software on them."
-