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Article #5381Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 03:44
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 03:44
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> To my mind, it's as free as anything else. Or could it be that you just don't
> like the idea of any improvements you make to code in turn being free ?
I have no problem with them retaining the rights to their code, and any
improvements. What I'm talking about is how the whole of any software that
contains any GNU code is considered as no more than such an improvement. That
includes (say) a 300K line compiler that happens to use GNU Getopt for
command line parsing.
Claiming rights to your code because you use a GNU library routine is just
a bit beyond the pale for me. You may disagree, but surely you can see the
point.
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