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Article #607Re: What does "free" mean, eh?
From: jeff
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 16:40
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 16:40
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In article <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: >I don't think that small items such as might fit into a single Usenet >article should use the GPL. It's like pretending /bin/true is proprietary, >which nobody in their right mind would do. >Larry "$GPL != $FSF" Wall Thought this was kinda amusing: "cat /bin/true" on my AT&T 3B2 produces all kinds of warnings to the effect that "This is unpublished *proprietary* source code," etc. (I won't post the specifics for fear of the dread AT&T copyright lawyers :-). However, there is not a single executable statement in the file. Jeff
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!gatech!galbp!samna!jeff From: jeff@samna.UUCP (jeff) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? Message-ID: <212@samna.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 90 16:40:05 GMT References: <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Reply-To: jeff@samna.UUCP () Organization: Samna Corporation, Atlanta Lines: 16