Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)

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From: Sean Casey
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 16:41

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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

|No one is claiming rights to your code.  The copyleft simply insists
|that you distribute copylefted code according to the copyleft.  So if
|you're using a GNU library routine, you must respect its copyright.
|It's no more (or less) unreasonable than requiring royalties.


And Russ calls this "free" software? Bah, humbug!


-- 
***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
***  "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when
***  Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM

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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)
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