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Article #368Re: Copylefting
From: Greg Lee
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1989 01:44
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1989 01:44
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From article <634@skye.ed.ac.uk>, by jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton): >... >But some people seem to think it's wrong for FSF to take that software >and copyleft their improvements. Why is it ok for a profit-making >company to keep their improvements to public domain software completely >secret and not ok for FSF to put on their kind of restriction? Taking the FSF view, it is of course not ok to keep such secrets (assuming the company sells the software). I don't see anyone saying that the FSF restrictions are unethical. One might wonder whether they best serve FSF's stated goals. If, for instance, C programs derived by running bison could remain proprietary, bison would perhaps be more widely used, more widely tested, and more people could contribute to its development. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Copylefting Message-ID: <4449@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 29 Jul 89 01:44:31 GMT References: <634@skye.ed.ac.uk> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 18